* Faster & easier to upload

* Anyone can search/query like a database

* Data can be downloaded in CSV or JSON format, manually or via API

Hope that helps!

I can download a google spreadsheet to CSV also. I agree that you are faster to setup to upload a csv

For some reason you can't upload directly on a google sheets website but you can do the following workflow:

1. Open google drive and drag it to there

2. Open the file on google drive and select spreadsheets.

I like your faceted queries and the JSON format might be appealing. Also Google sheets has an API. https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/

Is my information that I upload public to anyone or private?

Yeah, I've always found it clunky and awkward to upload CSVs to Google Sheets.

Re public: see my response to @jordache, it is either public or “unlisted”, but in either case it is available to anyone who has the link.

You can? Oh, that's great, because I can't. Although the actual spreadsheet runs smoothly, the web interface of Google Drive is horribly slow on my computer. Also, if I want to share or just quickly browse a CSV, it will be stored on my account and make a big mess on my files.

Not to mention that I must have a Google account and that Google will automatically read my data and associate it with me.