Hello, I would like to understand a bit more about Big Tables on top of the documentation available. To give some background, my client use a Business plan. and currently use Glide tables. I was wondering whether it would be a good idea to move to Big Tables since they are in a Business plan anyway…

I have worked a lot with Big Tables right from the start, so I feel like I can share a few things that I’ve learned. My general rule of thumb is that I only use Big Tables for transactional type tables, where lots of rows are being added on a regular basis. If I expect the row count to climb above…

This is super helpful @Darren_Murphy . Appreciate a lot in you taking the time to give such a detailed reply. Thank you so much!

I have a couple questions about whether to go for Big Tables as well. I haven’t even yet diagnosed how many changes to logic I would need to make, since that will be a heavy lift. How would performance compare in a Big Table with say, 2x the number or rows in a Glide Table? I’m considering an arc…

Here’s another Big Tables question - what conditions lead to seeing “Query” in the data table? Just trying to get my bearings. Does the “More computed columns in Glide Big Tables” team setting factor in? Which columns are the additional ones available with that setting checked? I’ve read the list of…

[image] HeartwoodTreeCo: How do actual table row counts factor versus app row counts on plan limits? I’ve been bumping into data problems in the editor as the app total crossed the 25K line, but no individual tables are over 8-10K. Does changing the largest table to a Big Table up the limit to 1…

Hello @Darren_Murphy I am curious about how you get sums in big tables :slight_smile: Every roll-up I am doing is not working with big tables… My use case : I check several conditions to be fulfilled to display a number (for example clientid is equal to [user profile data]) I am doing a sum (ro…

[image] Kevin_Rabier: All of these tests got this message “This rollup is limited to 100 rows and will give incorrect results if there are more rows than that.” But you’re already doing a filter of the data right? Would any of your filtered data ever go over 100 rows?

oh… ok you mean the 100 rows limitation is on the filtered data… I was not sure about this indeed my filtered data is not going over 100 rows ! In that case everything is fine !

Yeah, it should be on the filtered data per my understanding.

Morning all Over a year on from this post, I am curious if much has changed with Big Tables. Nothing I build has more than 1,000 rows or so per table - so guess I “may as well” keep using standard Glide tables. Or am I missing something? Andrew

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Eric_Penn June 2, 2025, 12:23pm 12

Using regular Glide tables works fine for most cases. However, if your app makes frequent API calls, the Big Tables API can significantly reduce costs… 100x cheaper. Additionally, the new API includes several new functionalities that may be beneficial depending on your use case.

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