Row Zero vs Excel - How is Row Zero better than Excel?

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I want to compare Row Zero vs Excel. How is Row Zero better than Excel? What Excel features are missing?

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Row Zero works like Excel. For most users, Row Zero supports everything they do in Excel and they can immediately start working in Row Zero and everything will be familiar. Row Zero uses the same spreadsheet functions (.e.g. COUNTIF, XLOOKUP, etc.) and keyboard shortcuts as Excel. You can easily create charts and pivot tables, filter, sort, insert slicers, etc. and edit raw data cell-by-cell.

Here’s where Row Zero is better than Excel:

  • Row Zero supports 1000x bigger data than Excel. The Excel row limit is 1,048,576. Row Zero has 2 billion rows available in the spreadsheet.
  • Row Zero is way faster than Excel for big, complicated spreadsheets - Customers tell us that things that took minutes to update in Excel take seconds/milliseconds in Row Zero.
  • Cloud security features - Row Zero is a secure alternative to Excel and has advanced security features for Enterprises. Row Zero helps solve the security and governance issues of typical spreadsheet usage. Organizations can restrict data exports, external sharing, and copy/paste. Spreadsheets are only accessible via secure company login (via SSO). Spreadsheets can enforce row level security (RLS), role-based access controls (RBAC), and data residency. Row Zero is SOC2 and HIPAA compliant. Here’s a breakdown of key Row Zero security features.
  • Built-in connectivity that’s faster, more secure, and easier to provision. It takes less than a minute to connect to a data warehouse and takes seconds to import 10s of millions of rows. Connections are secure via SSO/Oauth and Row Zero can enforce row level security (RLS) and role base access controls (RBAC) from the data warehouse.

Here are some of the Excel features not yet supported in Row Zero:

  • The long tail of spreadsheet functions. Row Zero has ~250 spreadsheet functions including all of the popular Excel functions. Excel has ~500 functions. If you need a function we don’t yet support you can contact us to request it
  • VBA - Instead of VBA, Row Zero has a built-in python code window, where you can write python functions that you can call in the spreadsheet.
  • Macros - You can similarly use the python code window to accomplish some of the same things you may have used macros for.
  • When you import an XLSX file, we import multi-sheet, all data, formulas, and formatting. We don’t yet import charts, pivot tables, macros, or VBA. Formulas we don’t yet support return errors.

Here’s a deeper breakdown of how Row Zero vs Excel.