We performed a comparison between SQL Server and TIBCO Spotfire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and others in Relational Databases Tools."The most valuable feature is that it is easy to use and you don't have to do a lot of configuration."
"I find query optimization to be highly valuable for data management. Additionally, drag-and-drop query creation greatly facilitates data management tasks."
"Since we can automate most of our tasks, it means that the management is very easy."
"It is stable, and it works okay."
"The most valuable feature of SQL Server is the performance."
"The most valuable feature would most likely be querying. We query a lot, we use a lot of stored procedures. As for other features, such as replication and all other more fancy features we don't use them the most. I do not know, but perhaps the DBAs would be the best people who know of the features that they use, but as far as how I use it, it's just for querying and running stored procedures. We use the bare minimum features."
"The solution has a reliable database."
"The most valuable features of this solution are easy queries and straightforward programming for beginners."
"TIBCO Spotfire is easy to use. We initiated Spotfire as POC, with support from a tech team based in South Africa. While they assisted with the setup, we conducted the POC ourselves."
"The two features that I have found most valuable are its ability to customize the dashboards when it comes to the evaluation. The second feature is its ability to handle a large amount of data, which is also something very unique about it."
"Data discovery is very simple."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"The most valuable features of TIBCO Spotfire are visualization. It's very nice, clear, and, flexible. You can analyze many data types and the user interface is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the map visuals that help us connect to the geo-specialized data which is more advanced than other solutions."
"Spotfire is excellent for scientific applications, especially because of its integration with RNG."
"Live Query data on demand, R and Python integration, and the ability to write HTML and JavaScript text areas are all valuable features."
"SQL Server doesn't have proper bitmap indexing, proper columnar databases, or proper implementation of materialized views."
"Performance could be better. But I don't know if it's a problem with my application or with my database."
"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 solution is expensive. The licensing costs are high."
"In terms of improvement, it could use more integration with other products."
"The performance needs some improvement and it needs more features integrated into it."
"Other than Synapse and the other version of SQL Server, they face some problems while processing the data."
"The treatment of database storage could be improved."
"The initial setup can be difficult."
"When you do the data loading, it is slow."
"One aspect where Spotfire could improve is its global recognition, especially in terms of support."
"Personalising Spotfire, as a whole, is painful and is something that could be made easier."
"The design of the UI could be improved."
"We encountered difficulties connecting the special data sets, as the post data set did not contain any shared columns, making it difficult to establish a connection between the data sets."
"Print capability and trigger-based events."
"The way TIBCO Spotfire is designed, in my opinion, is the reason why it lags a bit, especially compared to other BI tools like Qlik."
SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews while TIBCO Spotfire is ranked 10th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 67 reviews. SQL Server is rated 8.4, while TIBCO Spotfire 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 TIBCO Spotfire writes "A robust BI tool, with good dashboard features and adverse event tracking". SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and IBM Db2 Database, whereas TIBCO Spotfire is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, QlikView, Qlik Sense and ThoughtSpot.
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