Needs advice
on
FirebaseFirebaseMongoDBMongoDB
and
MySQLMySQL

Hey everyone, My users love Microsoft Excel, and so do I. I've been making tools for them in the form of workbooks for years, these tools usually have databases included in the spreadsheets or communicate to free APIs around the web, but now I want to distribute these tools in the form of Excel Add-ins for several reasons.

I want these Add-ins to communicate to a personal server to authorize users, read from my databases, and write to them while they're using their Excel environment. I have never built a website, so what would be a good solution for this, considering I'm new to all of these technologies? I know about the existence of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft SharePoint, and Google Sheets, but I don't know how to feel about those.

READ LESS
6 upvotes·283.3K views
Replies (2)
Recommends
on
Snowflake

Snowflake is a NoSQL database in the cloud, which also accepts SQL calls. Users can obtain an ODBC driver for SnowFlake, which would allow your Excel apps to write/read from the backend, locally.

READ MORE
4 upvotes·1 comment·59.3K views
woodcockjosh
woodcockjosh
·
August 26th 2021 at 1:45PM

snowflake is very slow compared to other databases IMO

·
Reply
Avatar of woodcockjosh