Google Colab
Colab notebooks allow you to combine executable code and rich text in a single document, along with images, HTML, LaTeX and more.
Google Colab vs Noteable:
a side-by-side comparison for 2024
Comparing two data science notebooks.
Noteable
Noteable is a collaborative notebook platform that enables teams to use and visualize data, together.
Google Colab
Noteable
Setup
Fully managed (setup in minutes)
Fully managed (setup in minutes)
Can you self-host?
Can you self-host?
No, you must use a managed offering
You can self-host (setup in hours)
Features
Is it Jupyter compatible?
Is it Jupyter compatible?
Jupyter-compatible
Jupyter-compatible
Programming languages
Programming languages
Jupyter languages (e.g. Python, R)
Jupyter languages (e.g. Python, R)
SQL
What kind of data sources can you connect to?
What kind of data sources can you connect to?
Connect with Jupyter libraries (e.g. SQLAlchemy, psycopg2)
Google Drive
Connect with Jupyter libraries (e.g. SQLAlchemy, psycopg2)
Connect to databases (Trino, Snowflake, CockroachDB, PostgreSQL)
Connect to data warehouses (Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, Databricks)
Provided file storage
What kind of data visualization can you do?
What kind of data visualization can you do?
Jupyter data visualization (e.g. Matplotlib, Altair, Plotly)
Jupyter data visualization (e.g. Matplotlib, Altair, Plotly)
UI for building charts
Reactivity
Reactivity
No reactivity, you decide the execution order
No reactivity, you decide the execution order
No notebook scheduling
Notebook scheduling is built in
Notebook scheduling with additional tools
Management
Reproducibility
Reproducibility
There is no support for reproducibility
Environments are reproducible by default
Execution is reproducible by default
Run notebooks in containers
No version history
Version history is built in
No support for collaborative editors
Multiple editors at the same time
Comments
Comments
No support for comments
Comment on items within a notebook
Comment on a notebook as a whole
Notebook organization
Notebook organization
View notebooks in a list
File-based
Licensing
License
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Price
Price
Free tier
Pay-per-user
Pay for compute
Free tier
Pay-per-user
Pay for compute