# Is Airtable with Glide fast and optimized?
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-airtable-with-glide-fast-and-optimized/51919
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [October 17, 2022, 10:24am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-airtable-with-glide-fast-and-optimized/51919 "2022-10-17T10:24:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Carter](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Carter)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2022, 10:24am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-airtable-with-glide-fast-and-optimized/51919/1 "2022-10-17T10:24:54Z")
I am seriously wondering about changing from Glide data base to a solution like Airtable that would allow me to do automatic actions according to dates etc. something that is currently not possible with Glide, my question is as follows. Is anyone currently using Airtable for an application if so, is it fast (loading etc) and optimized? Or do we still feel a difference compared to Glide table?
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2022, 12:41pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-airtable-with-glide-fast-and-optimized/51919/2 "2022-10-17T12:41:14Z")
I’m not sure if they have improved it or not, but the syncing time between Airtable and Glide is one of the biggest problems discussed in this forum.
> [@Improving refresh time Airtable\<\>Glide](https://community.glideapps.com/t/improving-refresh-time-airtable-glide/47492):
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> I’m building a Glide page with Airtable as database. My application has a lot of user-inputted data via various forms. I have a big problem which is that the current sync time between Airtable and Glide is not great. So when I a user, for instance, creates a new row of data and submits a form, it shows up immediately in Airtable but does not display in Glide for sometimes several minutes. I’m curious if anyone has any experience using Zapier or some other tool to sort of ‘force refresh’ Glide/A…
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### Author:  [@Carter](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Carter)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2022, 1:01pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-airtable-with-glide-fast-and-optimized/51919/3 "2022-10-17T13:01:18Z")
Ok i saw they work on new api, i must wait for that new api and after that i would switch on air tablem thanks for informations
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### Author:  [@gvalero](https://community.glideapps.com/u/gvalero)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2022, 1:06pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-airtable-with-glide-fast-and-optimized/51919/4 "2022-10-17T13:06:30Z")
> [@Carter](#):
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> like Airtable that would allow me to do automatic actions according to dates etc
Hola!
May you give us some examples about this restriction?
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### Author:  [@Carter](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Carter)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2022, 1:15pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-airtable-with-glide-fast-and-optimized/51919/5 "2022-10-17T13:15:19Z")
With Glide Table, you can create automation only with a trigger action and not with a condition. Per exemple, if the contract will be expire in 3 months, we can’t send an automation email to the client without click in a trigger button.
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2022, 12:09am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-airtable-with-glide-fast-and-optimized/51919/6 "2022-10-18T00:09:39Z")
It’s a long workaround, but you can send the relevant data to a data store in Make and have the automation run on schedule there. The tricky part, I think, is if you make any changes after the initial add then you must sync that with the Make data store as well.