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."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."
"It's easy to use and fairly intuitive. I do development and data analysis, so we do a lot of work with SSIS and SQL Job Scheduler. Deploying new databases is very simple with things like BACPAC."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"It's much more friendly in comparison with Oracle."
"The availability is the most valuable feature. It has high availability. It also has good performance."
"It is the latest technology and pretty powerful in terms of the high availability of the virtual server."
"SQL Server is a highly stable solution."
"The documentation and manuals are very good."
"Tableau is very good in the front-end visualization compared to Power BI."
"It is a complete solution allowing a lot of integrations, different graphics, multiple operations and analyzes our date and gives us meaning from it."
"The UI part is the best. The end-users can easily get started with Tableau Desktop or Tableau Online because of its user-friendliness."
"It is a very stable product. It doesn't break."
"There are already connectors to almost every single major database and service that you can possibly think of."
"It provides supporting data for critical policy and operational changes"
"Scheduled extract and the multiple connectors are fantastic!"
"The most valuable features of the solution are the permission management and the user management."
"Could have additional security."
"It is very costly, and that's the reason people are moving away from SQL Server."
"Its ability to handle certain kinds of large data could be improved."
"There are a lot of improvements in the cloud space about which we open a case with Microsoft every now and then. These improvements are not in terms of features or functionality. They are more related to their own compatibility or connectivity on which they keep on working to improve the product."
"Microsoft support is an issue unto itself."
"They do not offer the SQL Server Management tool via the installation. It is a separate tool I use when I'm trying to configure the mirroring with SQL Server Mirroring. This is not supported and I'm getting some errors on the database mirroring."
"The scalability is adequate but could improve."
"Debugging from the debugger tool functionality should be enhanced."
"Creating empty extracts is not easy."
"Improvements in schema security and row/column security need to be made."
"I am not a frequent user of this solution, so I am not sure what they've been doing recently. The last time when I used it, I had to use other tools with it for data extraction and cleansing. Its price should also be improved. It is more expensive than Power BI. In terms of training, there is generally better online training for Power BI, but I am not sure of that. It would be helpful to know from where to access its training."
"It should offer better features for customization."
"When compared to Power BI, it is less user-friendly."
"The charts need to be improved. The drawings and the visualization need to be more accurate."
"The product's features for cloud integration need improvement."
"Its price should be improved. Its price is much higher than Power BI and QlikView. Programming is not easy on Tableau. For programming, you have to have a separate model. They should include programming directly on the web portion of the Tableau desktop so that people can write Python or JavaScript code for customizations instead of using a different model. Currently, Tableau Data Prep is a separate application that you have to purchase. It would be helpful if they can include Tableau Data Prep and programming languages such as R, Python in the next version. Tableau Public, which is a community version, doesn't allow you to save your work on your desktop. They should allow it. Currently, you can only upload it in the community."
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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