# Will Glide Tables replace Google Sheets?
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/will-glide-tables-replace-google-sheets/17766
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [October 30, 2020, 1:11pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/will-glide-tables-replace-google-sheets/17766 "2020-10-30T13:11:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@mthakershi](https://community.glideapps.com/u/mthakershi)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2020, 1:11pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/will-glide-tables-replace-google-sheets/17766/1 "2020-10-30T13:11:15Z")
Hey all, long time. With the intro of Glide tables, is Glide planning to discontinue google sheets as a data source?
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2020, 1:25pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/will-glide-tables-replace-google-sheets/17766/2 "2020-10-30T13:25:25Z")
I doubt they would discontinue Google sheets as a data source. At least not for a very long time. Too many people are dependent on google sheets and glide tables don’t have all the functionality of Google sheets.
Glide tables just give us a second data source to choose from. I could see the opposite, and Glide adding even more additional data sources someday.
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### Author:  [@Tim\_Sullivan](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Tim_Sullivan)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/will-glide-tables-replace-google-sheets/17766/3 "2020-10-30T14:12:47Z")
> [@Jeff\_Hager](#):
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> I could see the opposite, and Glide adding even more additional data sources someday.
It’d be nice to see Airtable as a source.
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### Author:  [@david](https://community.glideapps.com/u/david)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/will-glide-tables-replace-google-sheets/17766/4 "2020-10-30T14:41:31Z")
No, we are not planning to discontinue Google Sheet support.
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### Author:  [@mthakershi](https://community.glideapps.com/u/mthakershi)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2020, 1:03pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/will-glide-tables-replace-google-sheets/17766/5 "2020-10-31T13:03:38Z")
But still 25000 rows is a top limit for acceptable performance when using google sheets. Right?
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### Author:  [@Gerard\_Fernandez](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Gerard_Fernandez)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/will-glide-tables-replace-google-sheets/17766/6 "2020-10-31T14:30:39Z")
The problem in performance is not only rows but also number of columns, relations, using of Importrange etc
I have 2 apps with the same sheet source with aprox 20k rows. One app just pulling basic info. 2nd one with relations, roll ups, lookups etc
Difference in behavior is huge
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### Author:  [@nathanaelb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/nathanaelb)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/will-glide-tables-replace-google-sheets/17766/7 "2020-11-01T21:45:42Z")
Jeff and David already answered, I’ll add my two cents.
David shared an approximate graphic that tells a good story: there are more spreadsheet programmers than any other language. Based on Glide’s mission statement, it makes sense that spreadsheets and Google Sheet in particular remain a data source for a long while.
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### Author:  [@mthakershi](https://community.glideapps.com/u/mthakershi)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2020, 10:36am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/will-glide-tables-replace-google-sheets/17766/8 "2020-11-02T10:36:55Z")
I get your point about performance. But if I design pages in such a way that use minimum relations / computations, does it still impact the performance in a -ve way?
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### Author:  [@Gerard\_Fernandez](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Gerard_Fernandez)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2020, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/will-glide-tables-replace-google-sheets/17766/9 "2020-11-02T13:52:41Z")
In my experience yes. The less operations, the better performance. Mainly when a lot of rows are involved