We performed a comparison between QlikView and SQL Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."The integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time."
"One of the good thing is that you can integrate different data source technologies. So you can model your environment without having any of our views running."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"E-T-L, The Extract, Transform, and Loading capabilities of QlikView make it a highly sophisticated self-service business intelligence tool for developers and analysts."
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"SQL Server is similar to other Microsoft products, such as BI, they are easy to use. You do not need to have an expensive BD to maintain them. All the useful intuitive features you find in Microsoft solutions you will find in SQL Server."
"This solution is user-friendly and easy to understand."
"The product can scale if a company needs it to."
"A big advantage is the ability to store any type of data in SQL Server."
"I like the availability group functionality. We are setting up more clusters using availability groups. The enterprise licensing or Software Assurance makes it a little bit cheaper as well. It is nice to have that read-only copy for reporting and everything else."
"It is stable, and it works okay."
"The pricing of the solution is okay. It's less expensive than Oracle, for example."
"We have found there are many useful features such as the solution is continually being upgraded, ETL capabilities for extracting and transformation, and it is very easy to use."
"It would be nice if QlikView could be plugged in into the company's website or an online portal such as QlikSense is capable of. There are ways around but it takes enormous time to develop."
"The user interface is old."
"Although Qliktech's road map clearly states that QlikView has a long way to go, most of the R&D effort seems to be benefiting Qlik Sense."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
"It is really old. We are moving towards converting everything into a Power BI environment. We want to have a self-service type of BI environment where different levels of users in organizations can log onto a portal and retrieve the data they need or get the necessary insights for decision-making that's important for them or their business unit. They have built a new version of QlikView called QlikSense, which probably competes with newer BI tools, such as Power BI, but they are far behind. That's why we are moving towards a newer tool that's easier to use and has more visualizations to represent the data."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"There's room for improvement in the area of management's handling of concerns."
"There are certain shortcomings in the scalability of the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Scalability of the database could be improved if it could handle increased volumes of data."
"Linux-based editions are not yet proven to be on par with Windows deployments."
"The solution’s initial setup could be complex, requiring some design of how you want to lay everything out and what type of storage you want to put certain things on."
"The installation process should be simplified."
"Sometimes, the tool doesn't support all the native features, and because of this, our company has to customize it to meet our requirements, which is a challenging process for our company's engineers."
"It needs to be improved to handle big data for large volumes of transactions for big industries. As compared to Oracle Database, SQL Server is not suitable for big data or large organizations where the database size could be more than 100 GB or more. In our country, for a large database and a large volume of transactions, we normally use Oracle Database. Most of the large banks are shifting from SQL Server to Oracle Database because of its slowness."
"Running multiple instances on the same box would be beneficial."
QlikView is ranked 5th in Reporting with 158 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews. QlikView is rated 8.2, while SQL Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of QlikView writes "Useful for data visualization and business intelligence". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, TIBCO Spotfire and IBM Cognos, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and IBM Db2 Database.
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