Active Query Builder vs. Tableau Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Active Query Builder
Score 9.8 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Active Query Builder is a component for business applications which helps users without any SQL experience to work with SQL queries and get data fast. Users can get a clear view of database schema and design SQL queries with natural point-and-click actions rather than tedious typing. Active Query Builder assists novice users learning SQL and allows experienced users to analyze and understand their queries better by parsing them and building the visual diagram. With…
$199
per developer
Tableau Cloud
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Tableau Cloud (formerly Tableau Online) is a self-service analytics platform that is fully hosted in the cloud. Tableau Cloud enables users to publish dashboards and invite colleagues to explore hidden opportunities with interactive visualizations and accurate data, from any browser or mobile device.
$15
per month per user
Pricing
Active Query BuilderTableau Cloud
Editions & Modules
VCL Edition (Delphi, C++Builder)
$199.00
per developer
Core .NET Edition (non-visual)
$199.00
per developer
ActiveX Edition
$299.00
per developer
WinForms Edition
$399.00
per developer
WPF Edition
$399.00
per developer
ASP.NET Edition
$399.00
per developer
Java Edition
$450.00
per developer
.NET All-in-One Edition
$899.00
per developer
Tableau Viewer
$15
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Viewer
$35
per month billed annually per user
Tableau Explorer
$42
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Explorer
$70
per month billed annually per user
Tableau Creator
$75
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Creator
$115
per month billed annually per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Active Query BuilderTableau Cloud
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Active Query BuilderTableau Cloud
Features
Active Query BuilderTableau Cloud
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Active Query Builder
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
7.6
74 Ratings
7% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings7.756 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.774 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings6.563 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Active Query Builder
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
7.6
74 Ratings
6% below category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.674 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.271 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings6.247 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.672 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Active Query Builder
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
7.8
72 Ratings
5% below category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.568 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings7.567 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings7.655 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.559 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings6.538 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Active Query Builder
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
7.8
70 Ratings
2% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.267 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.266 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.757 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings7.26 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Active Query Builder
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
8.4
69 Ratings
1% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.363 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings7.756 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.559 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.77 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.654 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Active Query Builder
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
7.5
59 Ratings
3% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.457 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings7.744 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.851 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Active Query Builder
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
6.9
41 Ratings
11% below category average
REST API00 Ratings7.836 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings7.234 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings6.833 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings5.629 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings6.735 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.232 Ratings
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User Ratings
Active Query BuilderTableau Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(5 ratings)
9.3
(75 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(28 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(20 ratings)
User Testimonials
Active Query BuilderTableau Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
Active Database Software
This is a good framework to use if your project requires frequent database queries. The product is made for both complete amateurs and seasoned experts. Prompt, courteous, and expert assistance; any problems are addressed and fixed without delay. Relatively inexpensive Inadequate, if there are new people involved, delays due to a lack of documentation are likely, and issues with code completion may arise.
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Tableau
If you're using Tableau as the primary BI tool, then Tableau Cloud is well suited to publish and share the results with a wide(r) audience. It is well suited for various degrees of self-service proficiency, from pure consumers of analytical work to more advanced users who can use web editing for smaller or larger adjustments, and even for desktop power users who will publish their work to Tableau Cloud. It has many good ways to organize the content and make it easily accessible via search, favorites, folders, collections ("playlists for your data"), or history ("recents"). It might not be ideally suited if there are many on-prem sources to be used (even though there are options to connect them) or if you have very special requirements regarding custom server setup, which is limited in a shared cloud environment like Tableau Cloud.
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Pros
Active Database Software
  • Pull data from SQL even if you do not know SQL.
  • Provides clear database information.
  • Works with multiple databases at once.
  • Data access and security.
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Tableau
  • Tableau Online is completely cloud based and that's why the reports and dashboards are accessible even on the go. One doesn't always need to access the office laptop to access the reports.
  • The visualizations are interactive and one can quickly change the level at which they want to view the information. For example, one person might be more interested in looking at the country level performances rather than client level. This is intuitive and one doesn't need to create multiple reports for the same.
  • The feature to ask questions in plain vanilla English language is great and helpful. For quick adhoc fact checks one can simply type what they are looking for and the Natural Language Programming algorithms under the hood parse the query, interpret it and then fetch the results accordingly in a visual form.
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Cons
Active Database Software
  • Features are good but lacks documentation
  • It would be great it were adaptive to Embarcadero/Dev Express Skins that would be very cool
  • Modifying SQL code is difficult
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Tableau
  • Can be a steep learning curve for new users
  • Modeling and building algorithms aren't always intuitive and take some testing/retesting to ensure it's working as it should
  • Inability to integrate easily with our HRIS platform. Reports are pulled from HRIS at various intervals and uploaded into Tableau
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Usability
Active Database Software
No answers on this topic
Tableau
Based on comments from our clients, I awarded it this grade. Non-technical customers frequently compliment us on the ease with which they can utilize Tableau Online. Usability is rarely a source of contention amongst our customers. Few complaints have come from me as a user of our internal products.
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Support Rating
Active Database Software
No answers on this topic
Tableau
I have not had any issues that require customer support from Tableau at this time, which speaks well to Tableau. I have taken an online course with Tableau and it was very professional and well done, so based on that I would assume a similar level of quality for their customer service.
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Alternatives Considered
Active Database Software
I have used Flutter to begin and with flutter you need learn a language called Dart which is not needed with AQB, which is the main reason for us to pick Active Query Builder as a choice over Flutter. AQB supports all the merchant SQL databases with native syntax support, query optimizations and more
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Tableau
In determining whether to go with Tableau Online versus Alteryx, two important factors stood out in determining our go-to solution. First, while Alteryx is an impressive tool for data cleansing, it did not stack up in terms of data visualization capabilities. Tableau, on the other hand, provided us everything we needed in terms of visualizing our data and analytics. The second factor is cost. Well neither solution would be considered cheap, Tableau was the more cost effective solution for our needs.
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Return on Investment
Active Database Software
  • better business decisions allow us to maximize revenue for the company
  • awesome ROI
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Tableau
  • When we release new products, we are now able to quickly see data and toggle between current periods and previous to see performance
  • Generating new reports requires less IT time to build
  • Data can be shared across many different device types
  • We now have integration where our customers can extract data from our software more easily-this was a big ask from our customers
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