Why you shouldn’t use Google Sheets as a database – Eric Koleda – Medium

At this year’s Google Cloud Next I co-presented a session entitled “How to grow a spreadsheet into an application,” where the thesis was that it’s OK to start with a spreadsheet and layer on additional technologies as you gain adoption and your requirements change. However that doesn’t mean that Sheets is always a great choice for storing your application’s data, and in this post I’ll explore some of the signals that you should be looking into other database options. Sheets are for people!