We performed a comparison between SQL Server and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and others in Relational Databases Tools."The features that we have found the most valuable are reliability, availability perspective, and current scalability."
"SQL Server's Management Studio is very user friendly. I like their database and the additional features it offers. It's also easy to integrate SQL Server with things like CLR, PowerShell, and command shell"
"They have improved the UI and ease of accessing the database and server which is good. You can load it up and start using it from the very minute it is implemented."
"The solution is configurable."
"SQL Server's most valuable features are that it is a large number of community resources to help you out. that's one, and then it is quite powerful."
"The initial setup isn't overly complex."
"It is fairly easy to work with. I like the high-availability options, like mirroring for example, and the high-availability groups."
"I think just having everything in one centralized set of databases where there is easily managed manageable."
"The number one thing was just the ease of getting something up quickly. The other thing that was good about it was that it was fairly fast for decent-sized data sets in terms of performance and run time."
"It allows us to basically understand and evaluate our numbers in an expedient manner."
"Tableau's most valuable feature is its ability to connect with various data sources and display real-time data on three different dashboards."
"Tableau is easy to use. That's the first and most important thing. I not only provide consulting but I also train people to use it, so with its ease-of-use it's not as difficult for me to train executives and management staff, because they don't have the IT background, unlike when I'm using Python."
"It's very easy to use and users don't need any IT support to access it as the information is right there."
"The most valuable feature is the user experience."
"The product’s performance is better than other tools."
"The most valuable part of the solution is the general dashboard features."
"The performance needs some improvement and it needs more features integrated into it."
"Indexing, as well as integration, are areas of this product that need improvement."
"Running multiple instances on the same box would be beneficial."
"It will be very useful to have high-level database monitoring. It should also have built-in business intelligence reporting."
"I would appreciate a dark theme for SQL Server Management Studio and ability to add databases with TDE enabled into availability groups."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing for SQL Server."
"I would like to see the integration with other platforms improved in the future."
"Linux-based editions are not yet proven to be on par with Windows deployments."
"With Tableau, there is a gap in its ability to handle very large-scale data."
"The ability to use it on MAC machines. As far as I know, this is not possible."
"We need big servers to perform the operations that we are doing. They should probably relook at its architecture."
"The price of Tableau is too high."
"SAP BusinessObjects has some semantic layer designs that give the flexibility to do ad hoc reporting or dashboard designing. If that can be brought into Tableau, it would be great. We have the data in the database, but we should also be able to bring something between the database and the dashboard and do some semantic layer modeling for ad hoc reporting requirements."
"The solution does have scalability issues."
"Tableau has so many functions, so sometimes it's hard to find the right solution quickly. I have to search multiple menu bars to find the right command."
"It needs more ETL capabilities, to be able to address the end-to-end BI need."
SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 290 reviews. SQL Server is rated 8.4, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and IBM Cognos, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks.
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