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."One of the most valuable features of SQL Server is that it's easy to use."
"SQL is stable."
"You could have an offsite and an onsite, and if the onsite goes down, the offsite picks it up. I like that flexibility to provide continuing operations."
"Most valuable features include: high availability, clustering, save backup and recovery."
"SQL Server's performance is fine."
"The most valuable aspect is the ability to utilize jobs and various functions to accomplish specific tasks, which cannot be achieved with standard procedures alone. This allows for a combination of features and functionalities to be employed."
"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 pricing of the solution is okay. It's less expensive than Oracle, for example."
"Tableau will automatically show charts for the related data that I choose making it very easy to use."
"The initial setup is quick and easy and you don't need special outside assistance to set everything up."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is user-friendly and intuitive."
"The feature that is currently most valuable is the import feature where I can link to an Excel data source. I'm not using it with any other data source, such as SQL Server. I directly link it to an Excel sheet, and if I change anything in that Excel sheet, the changed data immediately gets reflected in the virtualization. This is something that is very convenient for me as of now."
"It has been the best tool to work with from a self-service point of view."
"Data handling, visualizations, and aesthetics of it are the most valuable features."
"Compared to other products, visualization features are really good."
"Partner support is very good."
"SQL Server could improve by providing something similar to an interface or dashboard where a developer can do debugging, this would make a developer's work easier. Additionally, the optimization could be better. If there was an interface showing information needed for the optimization it would help because there can be some data loss making it difficult to optimize the SQL Server."
"If SQL Server could perhaps run on Linux, that would be good. Most of us prefer Linux and I've used a lot of Linux. I understand that SQL Server is quite powerful, but I'm not sure if the functionality is there, but if it could be used in an open-source type of environment, it would be very good."
"Database support could be improved."
"Third-party services from Redgate should be built-in to it, like SQL Search."
"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."
"The solution could use better governance on the management side, especially around data governance."
"It will be very useful to have high-level database monitoring. It should also have built-in business intelligence reporting."
"The tool's support needs to be improved."
"With Tableau, when you're dealing with very large datasets, it can be slow so the performance is an area that can be improved."
"Some of our clients are looking for better UI when using Tableau as they often work with this solution directly."
"Provide additional enhancements in any business process: Operations, Marketing and Sales, Finance, Human Resources, Logistics, etc."
"From a downside perspective, some of the more advanced modeling techniques are actually fairly difficult to do. In addition, I just fundamentally disagree with the way you have to implement them because you can get incorrect answers in some cases."
"Most of the problems in Tableau Online that I have noticed have to do with performance or weird, inexplicable bugs that I can't pin down. For example, you might try unloading some data, and you'll be waiting for a long time without anything happening."
"What is happening, with so many tools coming up in the market, is that people have to continuously get educated in order to use some of the more advanced features."
"Areas for improvement would be visualization and augmented analytics. In the next release, I would like to see automated insights from the data added to the dashboard."
"If you wanted to create something without making it an extra column in the data set, you can't just rename it to a more user-friendly short name."
SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 293 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 SAP SQL Anywhere, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks.
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