Best Spreadsheet for Big Data

Compatible with Excel and Google Sheets

Best Alternative to Excel and Google Sheets

Row Zero is a spreadsheet application like Excel and Google Sheets but powers billion row datasets (1000x Excel's limits) and seamlessly connects to your database or data warehouse. As a powerful cloud spreadsheet, Row Zero also signficantly improves data goverance and security across your spreadsheets. No files. No downloads.

Compare Row Zero vs Excel vs Google Sheets

Row Zero also signficantly improves data governance and security across your spreadhsheets.

5 Key Features You Get with Row Zero

Row Zero is a spreadsheet program similar to Excel and Google Sheets but offers 5 key upgrades to Excel:

1. Big data power and speed
2. Built-in connections to data sources - Postgres, Snowflake, etc.
3. Modern security and data governance
4. Native Python window to create custom functions
5. Easily opens big files and formats: parquet, .gz, JSONL, etc.

1. Big Data Power and Speed

Row Zero is the fastest and most powerful spreadsheet. Engineered for big data, Row Zero enables billion row spreadsheets - 1000x Excel's max of 1,048,576 rows. Google Sheets also has a max row limit similar to Excel and both typically slow down or crash well below those limits. Row Zero's highly performant spreadsheet engine blows past these limits and is significantly faster than Excel for big data work.

2. Built-in connections to your data sources

Row Zero makes it easy to connect your spreadsheets to your data warehouse, database, and other data sources to streamline and automate data import. Row Zero's big data power lets you import entire data tables into spreadsheets and filter, sort, and pivot in real-time to quickly view, analyze, and troubleshoot your data. Everything you build on top of connected source data stays in sync and automatically updates as source data is updated. Build dynamic spreadsheets with auto-updating reports, KPI dashboards, and evergreen analysis in a big spreadsheet that's easy to use.

3. Modern security and data governance

Row Zero is built for spreadsheet security and data governance. Eliminate ungoverned downloads, locally saved Excel files, and untraceable email attachments. Row Zero is HIPAA and SOC2 compliant. By default, spreadsheets can only be accessed via secure login and enterprise plans let you set up single sign-on (SSO) and offer advanced access controls. In fact, when you sync to your data warehouse, Row Zero inherits the access controls and row level security from your data warehouse. Security and data governance is a core reason why companies choose Row Zero as a secure alternative to Excel.

4. Native Python code window

Row Zero spreadsheets have a native python code window that lets you write custom spreadsheet functions with Python to automate, clean, and transform your data. You can also import python packages into your spreadsheet (pandas, numpy, scipy, etc.) to supercharge your analysis. Row Zero is the best option for coding spreadsheets and big data analysis compared to Excel and VBA or Google Sheets and Apps Script.

5. Easily open large files and formats: parquet, JSONL, .gz, etc.

Row Zero makes it easy to open and edit massive files. Whether you need to open a CSV too big for Excel or want to work with a file format Excel doesn't support like parquet or JSONL, just select your file and click Import. Row Zero even automatically unzips and opens .gz and .zip files into a spreadsheet. And if your Excel file is too slow or getting too big, simply upload your XSLX file to Row Zero and enjoy a faster ride in a big data spreadsheet.

If you work with big datasets or sensitive data in a spreadsheet, Row Zero is the best Excel alternative for you.

Bonus Points: You also get the best features of Google Sheets

Row Zero builds upon the key features where Google Sheets is better than Excel. As a powerful cloud spreadsheet, Row Zero offers:

• Real-time collaboration: Collaborate in the same spreadsheet synced to production data or use the Follow feature to walk teammates through your analysis.
• Seamless sharing: Easily share spreadsheets with editor/viewer permissions and refreshable or automated queries.
• Dynamic pivot tables: Build dynamic pivot tables that automatically update as source data changes and create dynamic pivot charts and cascading pivot tables from pivot tables.
• More seamless connections to web services: In addition to connecting to cloud data sources, Row Zero also lets you import popular python packages like pandas and data libraries like yfinance into your spreadsheets.

With big data power and enterprise security, Row Zero is the best Google Sheets alternative for big data work.