This is certainly true - I'm not saying "large file" in the colloquial sense of the "big data" but rather as in - a file you might want to open in Excel/Google Sheets. I've worked actual large datasets before - upwards of 500GB - pretty often before an I really wouldn't think about using my laptop for a such a thing!

We are thinking of making data connectors to major DBs though so you should be able to do a similar style visual analysis while keeping the compute on your DB.