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."The solution is a small application and is very easy to deploy."
"The initial setup was pretty straightforward. I would have worked with our IT team in terms of the initial setup."
"The deployment process is pretty fast."
"The feature I found most valuable is activity performance."
"The connectivity with PHP is quite good."
"The most valuable feature of MySQL is the informative error outputs of command line interface."
"Table partitioning is most valuable. It is easy to use."
"It is pretty simple to use and I don't have anything really bad to say about it."
"Tableau has many different connectors for different databases. It's very easy to connect to MySQL, SQL Server, Amazon EMR, Presto, Redshift, BigQuery, and so on."
"Better interaction and less time spent with end users."
"It is a stable solution."
"It is a very stable product. It doesn't break."
"The maps and colors and interface are all fantastic."
"There is a lot of APIs available, which means that Tableau can be customized to a large extent."
"It is very easy to create dashboards, charts, and graphs."
"Since Tableau is on the cloud, we haven't faced any challenges around scalability."
"MySQL could introduce more indexing strategies."
"The interface could be improved."
"The solution could improve the monitoring. At the present time, you need to use third-party monitoring solutions."
"Its performance should be better. When we use big data, it is slow in performance. We should be able to use mirroring for improved performance."
"The solution could have better integration and security features."
"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."
"Sometimes, not because the version is not the latest version, there are some issues with it. Sometimes there's an issue with the server which creates issues with it."
"We want high availability and replication features, which are currently missing in this solution. It would be great if they can provide an in-built replication feature, similar to Oracle RAC, in MySQL."
"An area needing improvement involves the complexity of the product should you need to alter a lot of parameters. If you have technical servers, much interface, different providers and more serious processes, that will be time consuming."
"An advanced type of visualization is a bit tricky to create. It has something called a Calculated field, and that sometimes gets a bit difficult to use when you want to create an advanced type of visualization."
"Improvements can be made in template support. The workbook file structure is really hard to version control. If there was some sort of version control support offered particularly for workbooks, that would help big time."
"In the next release, I would like to be able to have the option to see more raw data that I'm converting on the dashboard."
"Tableau's automatic insight could be improved. It has some predefined capabilities to understand the data, but I think they need more. Customers need more insight automatically from data—they don't want to discover them, they want to get the forecast automatically. The data preparation should also be improved because it's not easy. Tableau tries to focus on the business side, but the backend side has not improved much. They also have an ETS solution, but it's limited."
"They need to improve the icons and the filters, because they look too old, resembling Excel from 1997."
"The Hyper Extract functionality is not as strong as that provided by Microsoft SQL."
"Tableau could be improved by introducing a data manipulation layer within the tool itself. Currently, data manipulations require using additional tools like Alteryx. If Tableau included these capabilities, it would reduce the need for external dependencies. The tool gets slower when we feed huge amounts of data."
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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