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Ask HN: Is there a fast/performant alternative to Excel?

5 pointsby superconduct123about 2 months ago
I like using excel for quick analysis&#x2F;calculations but I find it falls apart if you have like 100,000+ rows<p>Does any company make an alternative that can handle large amounts of data?<p>I don&#x27;t need super fancy features, just the basics like being able to run a formula across a column or do pivot tables<p>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

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SvenLabout 2 months ago
Well, there are the HPC Services for Excel, were you can offload calculations to an HPC Cluster and support more rows. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;powershell&#x2F;high-performance-computing&#x2F;excel-offloading-to-azure-cluster?view=hpc19-ps" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;powershell&#x2F;high-performanc...</a><p>its not an alternative, but maybe it helps for your use case.
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gamegoblinabout 2 months ago
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.
gregjorabout 2 months ago
A relational database. Excel data generally maps well to an RDBMS. You can run sqlite, MySQL, or PostgreSQL locally on a typical desktop&#x2F;laptop.<p>Excel can serve as the front-end to a “real” database.
RGammaabout 2 months ago
Use PowerQuery&#x2F;PowerPivot&#x2F;DAX.