Billion Cell Spreadsheets with Incremental Computation
I figured this might be interesting for some here. This is a demo we built to showcase computation with Feldera (SQL compiled to Rust circuits that evaluate input incrementally): https://github.com/feldera/feldera The gist of it is that if you update a cell, we incrementally update the spreadsheet which means we will only emit a minimal amount of changes for the cells affected by your update. The nice thing about it is that this is something that Feldera does automatically (and it would do that for any SQL that you end up writing, so it doesn't have to be a spreadsheet,…
Billion Cell Spreadsheets with Incremental Computation launched on January 18, 2025 with 15 votes, #917 of 6,142 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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Billion Cell Spreadsheets with Incremental Computation is a demo built on Feldera that handles large spreadsheets by computing only the minimal changes needed when cells are updated. The system compiles SQL queries into Rust circuits that evaluate input incrementally, automatically propagating changes through dependent cells. It's designed for developers working with large-scale data computations who need efficient recalculation of affected values rather than full recalculation.
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I figured this might be interesting for some here. This is a demo we built to showcase computation with Feldera (SQL compiled to Rust circuits that evaluate input incrementally): https://github.com/feldera/feldera The gist of it is that if you update a cell, we incrementally update the spreadsheet…
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