We performed a comparison between Knowage and SQL Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."I can't name the features the way the Knowage community calls them because I still don't know the lingo. However, I can describe them. I like the ability to join more than one report, set all fields on one end, and replicate that on the other reports. I like that a lot. I think it's one of the features that got me using Knowage. They have tables, and I like that too. They took SQL scripts and many other scripts and enabled them to even correlate with Python. That's also one of the best things about Knowage. You could also decide to get information per user role, and this is also a feature that I like in Knowage."
"The embedding feature is great."
"The concept of engines is quite powerful allowing the user to work with report authoring/provisioning tools of their choice."
"We can easily do our own customizations."
"The solution has proven to be very stable."
"The most valuable features are ease of use and the integration with Single Sign On (SSO), as well as with other Microsoft products."
"Easy to implement and user-friendly relational database management system. This product is stable and scalable."
"SQL Server is easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature is replication because we had several replicas of the SQL Server database in different geographical locations."
"I like that the new version has a memory-optimized table to improve the performance."
"The product has been on the market for over 25 or 30 years. It's an extremely mature solution."
"The initial setup is easy, flawless."
"The only challenge here is that it's a Java-based platform. It requires very high technical skills."
"Development of SpagoBI has now been moved to Knowage. Users interested in further developments of the platform will have to look there."
"It would be better if more resources were available to help us learn how to use it. I wanted to use Knowage for a more extended period, but learning materials around the product were not really available and were not really straightforward. I've also seen inconsistencies between versions. For example, under the tools, especially in the cockpit, the way you create reports is now different. You will also find some configurations within a particular state, like a line chart, which differs from version to version. I think consistency is an essential feature in a product, especially for business intelligence products."
"The dashboard components could be better."
"The solution is expensive. The licensing costs are high."
"When transferring data from the SQL Server to Excel, the data types are not copied correctly. This issue might be associated with the formatting of the data types."
"I would like to see better integration between their link server and other platforms, such as IBM."
"The solution’s pricing and integration could be improved."
"The only item which I can list is application failure during Integration Services debugging, when restarting a process flow. In a number of instances the solutions fails. I have not given this much thought and simply stop and start the debugging service rather than restarting."
"The upgrades are unstable."
"In terms of improvement, it could use more integration with other products."
"Technical support could be better."
Knowage is ranked 19th in Reporting while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 259 reviews. Knowage is rated 7.6, while SQL Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Knowage writes "Easy to customize, cross-platform capable, and very stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". Knowage is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Pentaho Business Analytics and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and IBM Db2 Database.
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