Rusty-Sheet: an Excel/wps/opendocument Spreadsheets File Reader for Duckdb
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The post introduces Rusty-Sheet, a new file reader for DuckDB that supports Excel and OpenDocument spreadsheets, with comments discussing its potential and comparisons to existing solutions.
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Meh… I think I should work on a PR to fix this…
* File Formats: Excel, WPS, OpenDocument. * Remote Access: HTTP(S), S3, GCS, Hugging Face. * Batch Reading: Multiple files & sheets. * Schema Merging: By name or by position. * Type Inference: Automatic + manual override. * Excel Range: `range=’C3:E10'` syntax. * Provenance: File & sheet tracking. * Performance: Optimized Rust core.