Comparison of Spreadsheet Software

In late June 2024, we did a survey of the capabilities of the spreadsheet software available. This is an overview of our findings. The ultimate goal was to determine how sophisticated each engine is. While this may be subjective, we've tried to quantify this as a combination of a few factors: Feature set support Formula and function support Exactness of calculations Speed of calculations We are aware that we cannot be unbiased in this endavour. We are also actively trying to work against it, as we hope our learnings expose where we can improve. Comparison of features A spreadsheet engine feature set is perhaps the best indicator of how sophisticated it is. Features are selected based on whether they create a divergence. Comparison of function support Function support varies from engine to engine. We've found that 90% of the usefulness is sitting in about 350 most commonly used functions. Exactness of calculations Generally speaking we can say that spreadsheet applications a ... Read full article.