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📣 superconduct123

Is there a fast/performant alternative to Excel?


I like using excel for quick analysis/calculations but I find it falls apart if you have like 100,000+ rows

Does any company make an alternative that can handle large amounts of data?

I don't need super fancy features, just the basics like being able to run a formula across a column or do pivot tables

I feel like there is an opportunity for a company to make something like this, even if it only supports a subset of excel features

  👤 SvenL Accepted Answer ✓
Well, there are the HPC Services for Excel, were you can offload calculations to an HPC Cluster and support more rows. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/high-performanc...

its not an alternative, but maybe it helps for your use case.

👤 gamegoblin
Our startup, rowzero.io, easily handles tens of millions of rows and is a subset of Excel. Leave us feedback in the app if there are any missing features you need.
👤 gregjor
A relational database. Excel data generally maps well to an RDBMS. You can run sqlite, MySQL, or PostgreSQL locally on a typical desktop/laptop.

Excel can serve as the front-end to a “real” database.

👤 RGamma
Use PowerQuery/PowerPivot/DAX.