The Most In-Depth BI Tools Comparison Ever Made

In this video I present a comparison between Power BI vs Tableau vs Looker vs Qlik Sense vs Amazon QuickSight vs MicroStrategy vs DOMO vs IBM Cognos Analytics vs Oracle Analytics Cloud vs SAP Analytics Cloud vs ThoughtSpot vs Google Data Studio vs Infor Birst (Update: Apache Superset, Spotfire, Pentaho, Metabase, Alteryx are now also available in the links below)

I want to extend my appreciation and give credits to all the people who contributed to this analysis, including: AcrobaticJello9652, CognosPaul, David Mondragón, Will Pringle, morpho4444, EPMD_, cryptoel, Mr_Mozart, M SO, Julien O, Putrid-Situation1638, Sherry Quach

[akin]

Great review and analysis 👏! You factored in "common use bias", "Web search bias", and market share ownership. Then went into price, os system compatability, cloud agnostic, and other actual best business fit factors.

[geraldgrogan]

I would possibly suggest adding two more rows for comparison:

1) Data modeling (data prep) coding effort level supported (no-code, low-code, medium-code, high-code)
2) Max data set size supported for data prep

[vaishnavivel]

The most comprehensive and informative assessment in BI. Thanks for creating and sharing

[waelzayat]

I do believe that power bi is the most popular, even though the desktop version isn't supported by Mac or any other system than windows. Power bi is much more convenient than most of the tools in this analysis. But I still find Zoho analytics more flexible for me. The reason is that when it comes to data transformation, in Zoho analytics you can actually create tables using SQL functions from the row data you import whereas in power bi you can only use the join functionalities followed by filtering and standard data manipulation. Also changing themes and colours is really time consuming in power bi pivot tables or 'matrix'.

[kisho]

how can they be published for online collaboration and publishing?

[ClickRoyS]

Great stuff ! Q : why would you think Thoughspot picking up pace ? Your comparison is great but I am not able to justify why people would use any other tool than power bi or tableau, so would be great if you can integrate a section for targeted use cases where each are market leaders or differentiators.

[MrMusicaify]

Great comparison. The only criticism I have is that Stackoverflow is probably the most useful source of social interaction for each BI tool, but it would be useful to see the graph in terms of % of each tool questions divided by total BI tool questions, not divided total questions on Stackoverflow.

[dezcraft_dev]

This is great and really affirms my decision to invest my early career into power bi. Thanks!

[rickylau]

Great comparison, but what do you think if we are not only compare the tools but also include the whole platform? like "AWS + QuickSight" or "Azure + Power BI" or "GCP + Google DA"

[tejasdesai]

Which would you prefer the most to use.. Depending on the above analysis

[MrThuyphuc]

Amazing work! Thank you for your insights and analysis 👍

[maximvereschagin]

Hello!

No offence, sorry if you think that's "too much" for a question, please, I understand if you won't answer.

How much time did you spend on the whole analysis process? (excluding video recording)

Thank you!

[liamboyd]

At the end of the day, it's how well the tool perform in day to day. and in no where this comparison is showing that. I have used both Power BI and Tableau for number of years and I make dashboard for a large company. Tableau is the best by far for developing advanced dashboards and sharing with large audiences within/ outside of your organization, who are either in or out of the Microsoft ecosystem. Tableau is just faster, easier, and more intuitive, it all thanks to the backend stuff they have developed since 2003, and i don't see power BI catching up to that any time soon.

[mightybatata]

It is a good comparison, thank you for your efforts! However, as a long-term QlikSense user and developer I find it is way to underrated in this comparison. Imho it is way better than tableau, PowerBI or Looker, but that is an image problem QlikSense has since a long time and which their bad marketing has to solve. It was the only tool that did have a question mark in your last row, indicating that you couldn't find something on it. Your last statement about only tools with cloud offerings being able to survive is correct (even though on-prem still is very important for some companies) but you make it sound like qlik does not offer Cloud Integration, which is incorrect.

[geraldgrogan]

The Gartner's magic quadrant chart you list in your dashboard is way out of date. It's from back in February 2021 (a year ago)

[rubenvanderlaan]

What is your opinion on Board BI? If anyone else has any experience with it, I would love to hear your opinion.

[cherrycuteboy]

Which was the tool you used in the beginning of the video which consists multiple line graphs

[sanagaribabu]

is it power bi is top 1 demaind in salary and package aswell? to compare with tableau and microstragey?

[MonsieurSchue]

Personally I think Power BI is so popular now because it's super cheap and its Microsoft users base. However just like most of the MS product it's buggy and slow once you need to deal with large volume of row and data modeling. Ours worked like elephants and it's prone to crash from time to time. Tableau seems to be better but in our company it's still waiting to be seen if rollout is as expected.

[IIIO]

So just wait a bit so all good features are ez avialable in Google, like Google docs