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No no, it's not an alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets, it's much more than that! Seeing the demo, coupled with the Python support, I felt like anyone cou
by debdut 5y ago
No no, it's not an alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets, it's much more than that! Seeing the demo, coupled with the Python support, I felt like anyone could built a complex SAAS like Salesforce on it.
- kinduff 5y agoThere's even a meme generator. The tool looks very powerful!
- freen 5y agoI looked, but it seems to run on SQLite. Makes me a bit concerned about scalability.
- tony-allan 5y agoThey mention 100,000 rows as a soft limit. SQLite is the underlying database technology and it has a maximum database size of 281 terabytes. Enough for a weekend project! [1] https://support.getgrist.com/limits/ https://support.getgrist.com/limits/ [2]https://www.sqlite.org/limits.html https://www.sqlite.org/limits.html
- sdoering 5y agoThanks for the reminder of SQLite's limits. I knew that they were enough to just not think about it for everything I could imagine practically doing. But that I could even extend them beyond even that was nice to see: > The default setting for SQLITE_MAX_COLUMN is 2000. You can change it at compile time to values as large as 32767.
- freen 5y agoMore worried about write contention than storage.
- speedgoose 5y agoIf you don’t need concurrent transactions, SQLite is usually more than enough. A lot of people’s “big data” problems, not really big data but still significant data, can be solved using SQLite.
- kissgyorgy 5y agoThe use-case of this app is that a couple of people editing things at a time, which is perfect for SQLite. It can read a lot, only struggles when you have hundreds of parallel write transactions. It's a big misconception about SQLite that it doesn't scale. It absolutely can if you don't write it a lot!