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App Performance: Estimated speed increase if data moved to SQL?

If you haven’t checked out Performance Profile, do check it out to pinpoint any slow processes and Virtual Columns that may make your sync speeds very slow. If I had known how to use this earlier, I would have been in much less of a world of hurt. Find it via: Manage → Monitor → Performance Profile. You’ll see a table that has a Binoculars icon. Click on it and you can march down on what particularly is slowing you down.

I have a fairly complex app (it basically contains 2 years worth of medical school with all the connections and associations students need to learn to be good future doctors…). The database is Google Sheets, so when I run the Performance Profile, I get the following results for one of the tables:

1.901 seconds to read 44274 rows
1.263 seconds to update 1 row (as in Edit actions)

My question is, if I migrate to an SQL, how much of a speed improvement can I expect? Will it be half the time, quarter of the time, etc.

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