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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Tableau Cloud

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ATableau 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

    Vertica Analytics Database

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AThe Vertica Analytics Platform supplies enterprise data warehouses with big data analytics capabilities and modernization. Vertica was acquired and supported by OpenText, then sold to Rocket Software in 2026.N/A
    Pricing
    Tableau CloudVertica Analytics Database
    Editions & Modules
    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
    Tableau+
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Tableau CloudVertica Analytics Database
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Tableau CloudVertica Analytics Database
    Considered Both Products
    Tableau
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    Rocket Software
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    22 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    25 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Tableau CloudVertica Analytics Database
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Tableau Cloud and Vertica Analytics Database
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.6
    74 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Vertica Analytics Database
    -
    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports7.656 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.774 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates6.663 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Tableau Cloud and Vertica Analytics Database
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.6
    74 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Vertica Analytics Database
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis8.574 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.371 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages6.147 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.672 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Tableau Cloud and Vertica Analytics Database
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.8
    72 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Vertica Analytics Database
    -
    Ratings
    Publish to Web8.668 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.567 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.655 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.559 Ratings00 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers6.738 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Tableau Cloud and Vertica Analytics Database
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.9
    70 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Vertica Analytics Database
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.267 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.366 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.857 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.26 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Tableau Cloud and Vertica Analytics Database
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    8.4
    69 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Vertica Analytics Database
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.363 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.756 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.659 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.754 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Tableau Cloud and Vertica Analytics Database
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.5
    59 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Vertica Analytics Database
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.457 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application7.744 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.851 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Tableau Cloud and Vertica Analytics Database
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.0
    41 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Vertica Analytics Database
    -
    Ratings
    REST API8.136 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API7.534 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames6.833 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API5.729 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)6.735 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.232 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Tableau CloudVertica Analytics Database
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Snowflake
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Sisense
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Snowflake
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Tableau CloudVertica Analytics Database
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (76 ratings)
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (29 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.7
    (20 ratings)
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.0
    (49 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.3
    (49 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Tableau CloudVertica Analytics Database
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Rocket Software
    Vertica as a data warehouse to deliver analytics in-house and even to your client base on scale is not rivaled anywhere in the market. Frankly, in my experience it is not even close to equaled. Because it is such a powerful data warehouse, some people attempt to use it as a transactional database. It certainly is not one of those. Individual row inserts are slow and do not perform well. Deletes are a whole other story. RDBMS it is definitely not. OLAP it rocks.
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    Pros
    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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    Rocket Software
    • Extremely fast query performance - Vertica is one of the fastest query engines out there.
    • Scales to TBs - Scales reasonably well up to 10-20 nodes and 10 - 100s of TB of data.
    • Easy to Use - Fairly easy to user, we made quite some headway with just 1 person running it for a while.
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    Cons
    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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    Rocket Software
    • Could use some work on better integrating with cloud providers and open source technologies. For AWS you will find an AMI in the marketplace and recently a connector for loading data from S3 directly was created. With last release, integration with Kafka was added that can help.
    • Managing large workloads (concurrent queries) is a bit challenging.
    • Having a way to provide an estimate on the duration for currently executing queries / etc. can be helpful. Vertica provides some counters for the query execution engine that are helpful but some may find confusing.
    • Unloading data over JDBC is very slow. We've had to come up with alternatives based on vsql, etc. Not a very clean, official on how to unload data.
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    Usability
    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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    Rocket Software
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    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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    Rocket Software
    I haven't had any recent opportunity to reach out to Vertica support. From what I remember, I believe whenever I reached out to them the experience was smooth.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Rocket Software
    Vertica performs well when the query has good stats and is tuned well. Options for GUI clients are ugly and outdated. IO optimized: it's a columnar store with no indexing structures to maintain like traditional databases. The indexing is achieved by storing the data sorted on disk, which itself is run transparently as a background process.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Rocket Software
    • Positive impact on ROI by being able to get customer insights in real-time.
    • Positive ROI through reduced time to set-up and maintain Vertica instances.
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