Actian Matrix vs Tableau Desktop | TrustRadius

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Score 8.8 out of 10

Based on 3 reviews and ratings

Score 8.2 out of 10

Based on 1686 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Actian Matrix

Tableau Desktop

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Actian Matrix

Tableau Desktop

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

Actian Matrix

Tableau Desktop

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

Actian Matrix

Tableau Desktop

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Actian Matrix

Tableau Desktop

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

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Tableau Desktop

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dedicated iOS Application

Dedicated Android Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

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Tableau Desktop

REST API

Javascript API

iFrames

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pros

Super fast. Aggregate query such as SUM(), Count() returns result within seconds from a table with more than billion records.
Excellent data compression.
Easy maintenance. We managed this database without having a full time DBA.
Support ANSI SQL and ODBC/JDBC. It's easy to connect to this database from other systems.

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Dipankar Pradhan

Data Integration Specialist

CARFAXInformation Services, 501-1000 employees

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Love the interface. It's very smooth and easy to connect multiple numbers of data points
Provided a lot of self-learning tutorials which are easy to follow
You can display info in different ways (categorical versus numerical)
User friendly and has clean display

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Assistant Director, Master of Science in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

USC Marshall School of BusinessHigher Education, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Some of the bugs were annoying and QA definitely needs improvement
Connectivity to Informatica and ETL providers
Workload management could be better like when you compare with Teradata

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Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Very steep learning curve for those who haven't used it previously.
Because it's a powerful tool, getting it to do simple things can be extremely difficult.
A jack-of-all-trades solution, sometimes it's hard to find or create industry-specific visualizations, such as NPS gauges.

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Analyst in Marketing

Telecommunications Company, 201-500 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Actian Matrix 6.0

Based on 1 answer

No answer on this topic is available.

Tableau Desktop 8.9

Based on 39 answers

Our use of Tableau Desktop is still fairly low, and will continue over time. The only real concern is around cost of the licenses, and I have mentioned this to Tableau and fully expect the development of more sensible models for our industry. This will remove any impediment to expansion of our use.

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Manager in Information Technology

Mining & Metals Company, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

Actian Matrix 6.0

Based on 1 answer

I wish to give higher rating for the speed and efficiency in handling the queries, but only 6 because of consistent bugs we encounter

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Employee in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Tableau Desktop 9.4

Based on 31 answers

Tableau [Desktop's] interface is clean, minimalistic, and does a good job of hiding more complicated features so that the average user can get to work quickly and easily. As users become more proficient with the software, more features and customization become available, but they don't have to interact with those Advanced features from the get-go. Some scripting is available as well; the one area where this is week is in variable assignment.

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Christopher Penn

Chief Data Scientist

Trust InsightsResearch, 1-10 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

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Tableau Desktop 8.0

Based on 10 answers

When used as a stand-alone tool, Tableau Desktop has unlimited uptime, which is always nice. When used in conjunction with Tableau Server, this tool has as much uptime as your server admins are willing to give it. All in all, I've never had an issue with Tableau's availability.

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Associate Data Analytics Consultant

MarinerInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Performance

No score

No answers yet

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Tableau Desktop 6.1

Based on 9 answers

Tableau Desktop's performance is solid. You can really dig into a large dataset in the form of a spreadsheet, and it exhibits similarly good performance when accessing a moderately sized Oracle database. I noticed that with Tableau Desktop 9.3, the performance using a spreadsheet started to slow around 75K rows by about 60 columns. This was easily remedied by creating an extract and pushing it to Tableau Server, where performance went to lightning fast

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Professional in Research & Development

Biotechnology Company, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

Actian Matrix 8.0

Based on 1 answer

Faster initial response
Trained professionals
Very helpful in resolving issues

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Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Tableau Desktop 8.8

Based on 24 answers

The support team is easily approachable. All the questions and queries are answered on time. There is also a feedback mechanism which helps the team to make modifications and enhancements in the current software version. There is also a feedback process to check the efficiency of the support team of Tableau Desktop.

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Verified User

Analyst in Finance and Accounting

Banking Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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In-Person Training

No score

No answers yet

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Tableau Desktop 9.4

Based on 4 answers

It is admittedly hard to train a group of people with disparate levels of ability coming in, but the software is so easy to use that this is not a huge problem; anyone who can follow simple instructions can catch up pretty quickly.

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Jon Boeckenstedt

Associate Vice President

DePaul University, Division of Enrollment Management and MarketingHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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Online Training

No score

No answers yet

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Tableau Desktop 8.0

Based on 4 answers

The training for new users are quite good because it covers topic wise training and the best part was that it also had video tutorials which are very helpful

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Chandra Bhanu Pratap Singh

BI Developer

CognizantInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Implementation Rating

Actian Matrix 6.0

Based on 1 answer

Leader failover setup is the toughest and lack of proper documentation is making things tough.

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Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Tableau Desktop 8.0

Based on 36 answers

Again, training is the key and the company provides a lot of example videos that will help users discover use cases that will greatly assist their creation of original visualizations. As with any new software tool, productivity will decline for a period. In the case of Tableau, the decline period is short and the later gains are well worth it.

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Decision Sciences - Modeling, Simulation & Analysis

San Francisco State UniversityHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Actian Matrix is our first big data analytics storage platform, and as I was not involved in the POC process to compare it to other products out on the market, unfortunately I cannot say if it is better than other Big Data storage options. I can say that it out performs products such as Oracle or UDB in regards to the volume of data it can easily index and handle.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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When we first looked at getting a visualization software for analytics we looked into two options Microsoft Power BI and Tableau Desktop, and even though Power BI is more cost-effective we decided to go with Tableau Desktop as it had more options that we are looking for such as free reader and Tableau Server and offers a very comprehensive and simple interface that is easier to learn for new staff.

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Clinton Shields

Health Information Analytics Analyst

Kings View Community Services, Inc.Hospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

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Tableau Desktop 7.0

Based on 3 answers

Tableau Desktop's scaleability is really limited to the scale of your back-end data systems. If you want to pull down an extract and work quickly in-memory, in my application it scaled to a few tens of millions of rows using the in-memory engine. But it's really only limited by your back-end data store if you have or are willing to invest in an optimized SQL store or purpose-built query engine like Veritca or Netezza or something similar.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Finance and Accounting

Internet Company, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

ROI is great, less spending on full time DBA and that money could be use to add additional node.
Negative - Not many developers are well aware of this tool, it takes some time to learn.

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Dipankar Pradhan

Data Integration Specialist

CARFAXInformation Services, 501-1000 employees

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Tableau has provided my clients with the information necessary to allocate multi-million dollar research budgets effectively, ensuring the company is getting the most bang for its buck.
Tableau has given my office the ability to present data quickly and easily in a professional format that customers can understand, and has them returning frequently for additional analysis and projects.

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Innovation Research Manager

Wright Brothers InstituteDefense & Space, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Tableau Desktop Editions & Modules

Edition

Tableau Viewer	$12¹
Tableau Explorer	$35¹
Tableau Creator	$70¹

Per User / Per Month

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