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 in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"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."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"The most valuable feature is replication because we had several replicas of the SQL Server database in different geographical locations."
"This solution has proven stability and operational power."
"There is no lack of features."
"The solution is valuable because it seamlessly extracts reports and enables the collection of information from different tables."
"The most valuable features are ease of use and the integration with Single Sign On (SSO), as well as with other Microsoft products."
"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to use and you don't have to do a lot of configuration."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"Error handling."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"Though the initial setup phase is simple, when it comes to the integration with the custom systems, the configuration and the compatibility sometimes take some more time."
"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."
"The tool is expensive in Turkey."
"There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing for SQL Server."
"SQL Server needs to improve in performance and monitoring because there are no specific monitoring solutions to detect and analyze events for issues in the database. You have to use another monitoring solution. If Microsoft could provide an update to this solution or provide a monitoring solution specifically for SQL Server, it would be very valuable."
"The performance degrades when the data is huge."
"It's difficult to make changes. It's a very complicated product in general — that's the issue."
"The number of concurrent users is too limited and other databases are better than SQL in this regard."
"The price could be better. In the next release, it would be better if the database was more easily extendable."
"The scalability and the high availability feature can be expanded or improved. Currently, there is a limitation on scalability. A feature similar to the Oracle Diagnostic feature can be included to provide a better user experience."
"In terms of what could be improved, everything on-premise is now moving to the cloud. Obviously SQL Server has also moved, because Microsoft Excel has its own cloud called Azure Finance. Every solution comes with its own advantages and disadvantages."
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 SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise.
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