We built a billion row spreadsheet

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We built a billion row spreadsheet is active in the show hn launch space.

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We're former AWS S3 engineers. Row Zero is "Google Sheets on steroids". We built it because we were frustrated with Excel's 1 million row limit and poor integration with cloud data sources like S3, Postgres, Snowflake, and Databricks.Under the hood, the spreadsheet engine is a columnar key-value store written in Rust. We built it from scratch because SQL engines like DuckDB only work well for structured tables. The unstructured nature of spreadsheets make them a bad fit for SQL. The engine also needs to be 100% Excel compatible so you can import existing xlsx files.The front-end is a big React app with hand-rolled canvas rendering. We virtualize scrolling to handle 2 billion+ row data sets.

Within the show hn launch space, the company focuses on its core offering rather than a broad product line.

Its current recorded stage is Show HN launch.

Website: rowzero.com