[Qgis-user] Is there a vector equivalent of Build Virtual Raster?

[Andrew Chapman]

The Build Virtual Raster (Catalog) is great handling tiles in tiff format
and makes for a much more responsive QGIS than trying to just add lots of
rasters as individual layers.
I also have an equivalent set of shapefiles, again covering tiled areas. Is
their a vector equivalent to the BVR plugin? It would be much easier if I
could also set styles for this virtual vector layer, rather than having to
manually style each of hundreds of tiled shapefiles.

Andrew Chapman