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Hex vs Kaggle:
a side-by-side comparison for 2024

Comparing two data science notebooks.

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Hex

The Data Workspace for Teams. Work with data in collaborative SQL and Python notebooks. Share as interactive data apps that anyone can use.
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Kaggle

Explore and run machine learning code with Kaggle Notebooks, a cloud computational environment that enables reproducible and collaborative analysis.

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Hex

Kaggle

Setup

Is it managed?

Is it managed?

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
No, you must use a managed offering

Features

Is it Jupyter compatible?

Is it Jupyter compatible?

Jupyter-compatible
Jupyter-compatible

Programming languages

Programming languages

Jupyter languages (e.g. Python, R)
SQL
Jupyter languages (e.g. Python, R)

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)
Connect to data warehouses (Google BigQuery, ClickHouse, etc.)
Connect to databases (MariaDB, SQL Server, etc.)
Provided file storage
Connect with Jupyter libraries (e.g. SQLAlchemy, psycopg2)
Kaggle datasets

What kind of data visualization can you do?

What kind of data visualization can you do?

Jupyter data visualization (e.g. Matplotlib, Altair, Plotly)
UI for building charts
Jupyter data visualization (e.g. Matplotlib, Altair, Plotly)

Reactivity

Reactivity

Full, realtime reactivity
No reactivity, you decide the execution order

Notebook scheduling

Notebook scheduling

Notebook scheduling is built in
Limited scheduling capabilities

Management

Reproducibility

Reproducibility

Environments are reproducible by default
Execution is reproducible by default
Run notebooks in containers
Environments are reproducible by default

Version history

Version history

Version history is built in
Version history is built in

Collaborative editing

Collaborative editing

Multiple editors at the same time
No support for collaborative editors

Comments

Comments

Comment on items within a notebook
Comment on a notebook as a whole

Notebook organization

Notebook organization

View notebooks in a list
View notebooks in a list

Licensing

License

License

Proprietary
Proprietary

Price

Price

Free tier
Pay-per-user
Pay for compute
Free

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