We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and SQL Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."I like that I can use Power BI to upload data. That is very important for me. The visualization is also convenient and easy to use."
"Constant collaboration is the most valuable. I can build a dashboard, and several co-workers can access this dashboard. We can share information that is important for decision-making. It is a very easy-to-deploy solution. It is compatible with a lot of data sources. It is also very stable and scalable. There is also a very good forum and a lot of help and online training."
"What I have found valuable about Microsoft BI is its performance and ease of use. The interface is very simple and it is accessible to everyone. If someone is new to this type of solution it is straightforward to understand."
"The best feature for me is Power Query. I know that probably sounds strange, but you can't do too much with visuals and reports if the backend stuff is horribly dirty and just bad. But for me, that is absolutely fantastic. I can load the data and do the transformation and be able to load it in a useful way. There are tons of connections, which is absolutely fantastic as well. It's been fairly easy, and it's intuitive."
"Easy to use and the visualization is valuable."
"You don't need much support with Microsoft Power BI because it has such a large base of users who can answer your questions on their forums. There are also many video tutorials and webinars available online that offer solutions to whatever problems you may have."
"Microsoft BI's dashboards are helpful."
"MS SQL & SQL Server Analysis Services."
"The solution is user-friendly, is a robust tool and is always reliable to users."
"Scalability, cluster ability, ease of use, ease of implementation — these are all great."
"The main feature of this solution is ease of use."
"The features that we have found the most valuable are reliability, availability perspective, and current scalability."
"The solution is very common. It's easy to use."
"The product’s most valuable features are flexibility and scalability."
"If we want to expand to other servers and create an extra node, it's expandable."
"The most valuable feature is replication because we had several replicas of the SQL Server database in different geographical locations."
"The upgrade process could be improved."
"Its desktop tool is a little bit memory CPU intensive, and it can be improved, but the machines nowadays come with a lot of memory. For the desktop users who are using it on the desktop, we recommend that they do an upgrade. It is a minor issue. We can fix it on the desktop."
"It should have more integrations."
"The on-premises version lacks some technical features that are available with the Cloud version."
"From any improvement perspective, I want the product to be made available to users free of cost...The stability and scalability of the product can be better."
"The look and feel should be updated in terms of the types of dashboards and graphs that you can produce. They aren't as visual as some of its competitors."
"The cost of the solution can get high."
"Some kind of expression wizard, where the user can build a complex expression without any knowledge of DAX, can be a good addition to the product."
"Right now we don't get much technical support from Microsoft"
"SQL Server has good performance, but it could be better."
"The treatment of database storage could be improved."
"SQL Server could be more robust than one of its competitors."
"For small-scale businesses, Microsoft could improve by removing some limits in SQL Express."
"Technical support could be better."
"For a big amount of data, when we are speaking about IoT Segments, and Big Data projects, there are performance issues."
"The GUI needs improvement. From a technical perspective, it's quite complex, which may not be a problem for individuals with technical backgrounds like ours, especially since we've encountered similar interfaces. However, navigating the GUI can be challenging for newcomers or product owners without technical experience. For example, as someone transitioning from a developer role to a product management role, I find it relatively easy to use the GUI. But for those without a technical background, it's much more challenging to grasp what's happening."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while SQL Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and IBM Db2 Database.
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