I just recently converted three of my Glide tables to Google Tables (exported to a Google sheet and then attached it to my App). I did it so I could write programs to auto-purge records from these three Google Sheets based on age because I expect them to get large rather fast. I will also purge re…

It definitely is slower with Google sheets as compared to glide tables as sync is a major concern! Glide tables are stored within firestore database while google sheets are synced to the firestore first and then rendered. But the lag should not more than a few milliseconds to 2 seconds tops. It d…

[image] How scalable is Glide FAQ 25k is the technical “limit” for the all of the data in the app, but it’s not strictly enforced by glide…yet. It’s more of a technical limit when syncing data between google sheets, the glide database, and the copy of the database on each…

[image] David_Gabler: Then there was the work of re-populating the tabs with the correct objects. Even though the fields were named the same, and I had re-created all the computed columns in the Google Tables, Glide got confused with the switch. Do you mean that you replaced Glide computed co…

[image] Darren_Murphy: Do you mean that you replaced Glide computed columns with spreadsheet formulas? No, what I mean is I made all the columns that I needed in the Google Sheet, populated the data and then attached it to my App. Then in Glide I added all the computed columns that I had on …

After working with this all day, I wanted to give an update on the speed. After implementing several tricks and tips of users on this forum, I was able to implement owner rows and row sharing in the critical table that needed it (based on a Google Sheet). The speed on the phone has gone back to wha…

Google Table vs. Glide Table speed

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ThinhDinh January 13, 2022, 11:56pm 3

I think this can help you understand more about the sync between Google Sheets and Glide. We usually refer to these as “Google Sheets” and “Glide Tables”, just a point so we don’t get confuse.

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Google Table vs. Glide Table speed

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