Announcing Write-Back for Databricks and Snowflake with Gigasheet Enterprise

We're excited to announce that Gigasheet Enterprise is taking a major leap forward: write-back capabilities for Databricks and Snowflake. Now, users can not only analyze and transform large datasets in a spreadsheet-like interface but also push these changes directly back to their data warehouse. This closes the gap between ad hoc analysis and data operations, keeping insights in sync and cutting down on rogue spreadsheets—all while empowering more users across your organization to contribute to and access your data.

Bridging the Gap: Live Query and Write-Back in Gigasheet Enterprise

For modern enterprises, centralizing data in warehouses like Databricks and Snowflake is crucial. However, even with the best efforts, some data always exists outside the warehouse—whether in preliminary analyses, custom datasets, or departmental reports. Gigasheet Enterprise provides a powerful solution to this challenge with both live query capabilities and the new write-back feature.

With live query functionality, Gigasheet Enterprise connects directly to your data warehouse, issuing SQL queries in real-time. Users can analyze and transform data without needing to move or replicate it, ensuring that no sensitive information is persisted outside the customer's environment. This allows for secure, on-the-fly exploration where data remains controlled and up-to-date. Gigasheet Enterprise acts as an interactive lens, enabling business users to view, filter, and manipulate data instantly—without waiting on a technical middleman.

For most organizations data analysis doesn't stop at querying and visualizing; it needs to be operationalized. Gigasheet Enterprise’s write-back capabilities allow users to push their cleaned, transformed, and enriched data back into Databricks and Snowflake in a governed way. This closes the loop between exploratory analysis and ongoing operations, keeping your main data sources consistent and up-to-date without the need for extra tools or technical workflows.

Empowering Data Consumers: Democratizing Data Exploration

Modern BI tools have made it easier for many executives and analysts to gain access to data through pre-built dashboards and visualizations. However, there remains a large group of data consumers whose primary data tool is still the spreadsheet. For these users, the traditional data stack can feel limiting, often requiring SQL skills or specialized tools to access and explore data directly.

Spreadsheets have long been the go-to environment for ad hoc analysis creative data exploration — offering flexibility for rapid analysis, experimentation, and iteration— and perhaps most importantly a interface that's already familiar to most business users. However, as many data teams know, spreadsheets also contribute to data chaos and disconnected silos when used outside a controlled system. Gigasheet Enterprise builds on the strengths of the spreadsheet while integrating it directly with your data stack. Users can transform, clean, and manipulate large datasets in a no-code environment and then write those insights directly back (in a governed way) to their data warehouse for operational use. Gigasheet supports over 40 file types, from CSVs and Excel to JSON and Parquet so users can easily join any data file into a sandbox within the warehouse.

How Gigasheet Enterprise Solves for Flexibility and Control

The power of Gigasheet Enterprise lies not only in its ability to live query and write-back to data warehouses like Databricks and Snowflake but also in its flexibility to handle an incredibly wide array of data formats and types. This versatility means users can consolidate and analyze data from various sources without worrying about incompatibility or complex preprocessing. Here’s how Gigasheet Enterprise delivers on that promise:

• Empower Non-Technical Users to Explore & Transform Data: Business users need flexibility to explore data, make transformations, and build insights quickly—all without the technical barriers of SQL or code. Gigasheet Enterprise provides a familiar, spreadsheet-like environment that allows users to clean data, build pivot tables, apply formulas, and conduct complex joins across multiple data sources.
• Avoid Data Silos & Rogue Spreadsheets: When data exists in disconnected spreadsheets and files, it often leads to data silos and inconsistencies. Gigasheet Enterprise allows users to connect these files directly to their central warehouse, helping reduce the risk of multiple versions of the same dataset being created. Write-back capabilities ensure that any changes made in Gigasheet are immediately synced back to Databricks or Snowflake, maintaining a single source of truth.
• Wide Support for File Types & Encoding: Gigasheet Enterprise is built to handle an impressive variety of file formats and encodings (and upload exceeding 250GB!), ensuring that users can work with virtually any data they have on hand. Whether it’s CSVs, TSVs, Excel files, JSON, XML, log files, or even formats with non-standard encoding like UTF-8, Gigasheet can ingest and parse the data seamlessly, eliminating the need for complicated transformations or special tools. For example:
  • Text & Delimited Files: Gigasheet Enterprise supports a variety of text-based formats like CSV, TSV, PSV (pipe-separated values), and other custom-delimited files.
  • Excel Support: It fully supports Excel formats (.xlsx, .xls, .xlsm) for direct import, ensuring that data is processed accurately without needing conversions.
  • JSON & Nested Data Structures: Gigasheet is capable of parsing complex JSON structures, even those with nested elements. This enables users to easily interact with and flatten hierarchical data directly in the interface.
  • Log & Event Files: Apache logs, web server logs, and other text-based log files are supported, allowing for straightforward import and analysis.
  • Robust Encoding Capabilities: With support for common encodings like UTF-8, UTF-16, and ISO-8859-1, Gigasheet Enterprise handles multilingual and special character sets, ensuring that no data is lost or misrepresented during the import process.
• Unified and Real-Time Data Operations: The live query feature ensures users always work with the most recent data directly from their warehouse. Instead of exporting data and running the risk of discrepancies, all transformations and analyses are performed on real-time data. Once adjustments or new insights are identified, they can be written back to Databricks or Snowflake, maintaining data accuracy and operational readiness.
• Scalable Data Exploration & Self-Service: Gigasheet Enterprise is built to scale. Users can load, analyze, and transform massive datasets with billions of rows—something that traditional spreadsheet tools like Excel simply can't handle. This scalability makes it possible for teams to perform deep analysis on a wide range of data sources without technical bottlenecks.

By combining the ability to work directly with a vast array of data formats and live-query capabilities, Gigasheet Enterprise allows users to work with data more freely and accurately than ever before. This not only enhances flexibility and control but also drastically reduces the time spent on data preparation and cleaning.

Key Benefits of Gigasheet Enterprise Write-Back for Databricks & Snowflake Users

Bidirectional Data Flow: Move data seamlessly between your warehouse and Gigasheet Enterprise, enabling interactive analysis and synchronization in both directions. Users can query live data from Databricks or Snowflake, transform it within Gigasheet’s intuitive environment, and write those changes back to the warehouse—all without needing complex tools or manual data handling.

Reduce Data Debt & Silos: One of the biggest challenges in data management is keeping datasets aligned across disparate tools and platforms. Gigasheet Enterprise’s write-back capabilities ensure that all data transformations and analyses stay in sync with your warehouse, reducing the risk of rogue spreadsheets and outdated information.

Enrich Your Data with No-Code Integrations: Gigasheet Enterprise allows for easy data enhancement through Enrichments, which add deeper context and insights to your datasets. A standout feature is the ChatGPT Enrichment, enabling AI-driven text analysis, content generation, and other advanced functions—all within a no-code environment. This enrichment makes it easy to unlock deeper insights or automate tasks directly in your Gigasheet spreadsheet.

Automate Your Data Workflow with Gigasheet’s API: Gigasheet Enterprise features a fully functional API that lets you automate any step in your data workflow. Whether it’s moving data into Gigasheet, transforming and enriching data, or writing results back to your data warehouse, the API can handle it all programmatically. This allows data engineers and technical teams to build repeatable, automated processes for common tasks—saving time, reducing errors, and accelerating the overall data pipeline.

Increase Adoption & Self-Service Across Teams: Gigasheet Enterprise encourages widespread data exploration and operationalization. With its familiar spreadsheet-like interface, users across your organization can analyze, manipulate, and write back data to the warehouse without needing specialized skills. This self-service capability empowers teams to be more agile and data-driven in their decision-making.

Maximize Productivity and Scale Data Workflows: Gigasheet Enterprise is built to handle massive datasets with billions of rows, offering scalability and performance beyond what traditional spreadsheets can achieve. Teams can rapidly iterate on their analyses, clean data, and append new information—all while keeping the master data source accurate, up-to-date, and ready for downstream systems or BI tools.

The combination of write-back capabilities, no-code enrichments like ChatGPT, and a fully-featured API make Gigasheet Enterprise a comprehensive solution for data exploration, transformation, and automation, providing both technical and non-technical users with the tools they need to drive data-driven decision-making and operations. We're looking forward to adding support for all of our enterprise data sources in the future.

About Gigasheet Enterprise

Gigasheet Enterprise is redefining how enterprises interact with their data by offering a familiar, flexible spreadsheet interface that connects seamlessly to the warehouse. The live query and write-back capabilities enhance this experience by turning Gigasheet from a tool of analysis into a true extension of your data pipeline, ensuring data exploration doesn't end with isolated insights but flows directly back into your central operations.

As the landscape of data exploration continues to evolve, Gigasheet Enterprise’s ability to empower teams, reduce data debt, and unify data access makes it a game-changer for organizations looking to make their data work harder and smarter.

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