We performed a comparison between MySQL and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, PostgreSQL, Firebird and others in Open Source Databases."Support for enterprise-grade features like clustering, master-slave replication, even Sharding (to some extent) which is an advanced feature."
"I rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten since it has been running flawlessly."
"This specific version of this MySQL has been battle tested for a long time. Any issues are known issues and we pretty much don't have any problems when they're in production. So it's very stable."
"MySQL is a light database. It's not very complex. It's easy to develop, easy to maintain, and easy to back up and restore."
"The solution is free to use, which is its most valuable aspect."
"The easy access to the data and the ability to sort the data with multiple methods are very valuable features."
"What I really like about MySQL is the opportunity to search for information and organize it any way I like."
"The solution helps us perform with our databases and extract data."
"You can create attractive dashboards that inform users using Tableau."
"From the data science point of view, we use it for model building purposes. For example, if we are using it for a bank and we want to understand how much loan the bank can provide, we can use visualization to show the educational qualification, salary, gender, and city of a customer, and by using this information, we can arrive at the loan amount that this person is eligible for. I can also use it to view all prospective customers, so essentially, this is going to help me in model building as well as in understanding and segmenting customers and doing forecasting and predictive analytics. We use model widgets, and we can create thousands of visualizations, such as motion charts and bubble charts. We can also create animated versions of the graphs and view the data from multiple dimensions. These are the features that we typically use and like."
"We found Tableau has the quickest learning time out of the few other BI reporting tools that we have used."
"Tableau's most valuable feature is its ability to connect with various data sources and display real-time data on three different dashboards."
"There is a lot of APIs available, which means that Tableau can be customized to a large extent."
"It's very user-friendly. It's not like Power BI, Tableau is very user-friendly. Anybody can use Tableau. It's very easy to adopt things. I can visualize the stats."
"The solution is easy to use, flexible, our clients enjoy seeing the data on maps, and you do not need to be an expert in SQL to use it."
"The most valuable part of the solution is the general dashboard features."
"I would like to improve the solution’s pricing for licenses."
"When I run into issues, I really have to research how to fix them."
"Its scalability can be better. It is probably not as scalable as Oracle. I had some issues with connectors. I used it from a C++ program, and it required some work to make it run, but finally, it worked."
"MySQL tutorials and guides could be improved. Often they are too complex for someone with no database experience to understand."
"The interface could be improved."
"It could be more secure."
"In terms of what I'd like to see in the next release, one thing that's always missing is dash boarding. There's no real BI tool for MySQL, like there is in Yellowfin and all the different tools that you get. They all have MySQL connectors, but there's no specific BI tool for MySQL. These open source projects have sprung up, but they're more general purpose."
"It should provide better customer experiences."
"The customization requires a lot of effort and should be simplified. The performance could be better."
"It's already using 32 gigabytes of memory, but the performance is not so good. It's very heavy."
"The data processing in Tableau is pathetic compared to Qlik."
"The architecture should be improved to better handle the data."
"I don't have the ability in Tableau to create a tooltip and see the picture of a piece of jewelry or watch that is a best seller."
"It needs more ETL capabilities, to be able to address the end-to-end BI need."
"More integration with Python or something related to machine learning would be a good improvement."
"I am a BI consultant. I have worked on different reporting tools, such as Power BI and MicroStrategy. As compared to other tools, Tableau lags behind in handling huge enterprise-level data in terms of robust security and the single integrated metadata concept. When we connect to large or very big databases, then performance-wise, I sometimes found Tableau a little bit slow. It can have the single metadata concept like other tools for the reusability of the objects in multiple reports."
MySQL is ranked 1st in Open Source Databases with 142 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 293 reviews. MySQL is rated 8.2, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of MySQL writes "Good beginner base but it should have better support for backups". 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". MySQL is most compared with Firebird SQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Teradata and SAP HANA, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks.
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