1010data's Trillion-Row Spreadsheet™ facility allows users to analyze Big Data in a familiar, easy-to-use, spreadsheet environment.
Although spreadsheets are a familiar concept, the spreadsheets with which everyone is familiar cannot begin to handle Big Data. So it is natural to ask what we mean by spreadsheet and what we mean by Big Data. Let's start with the first question. What do we mean by "spreadsheet"?
Essentially a spreadsheet offers a unique analytical experience that combines three important elements.
- It is visual: The user sees the actual detailed data and results.
- It is interactive: The user performs incremental operations and gets incremental results. You "run" application programs, you "submit" queries to a database, but in a spreadsheet you don't "run" or "submit" anything. You do things. You interact with the data in a much more direct and natural way.
- It is unrestricted: The user is allowed to perform unguided, impromptu analysis. Spreadsheets are not designed for particular applications; they are a blank slate that the user can leverage as he or she sees fit.
None of these things characterize the standard data warehouse ecosystem. They all characterize the 1010data Trillion-Row Spreadsheet.
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