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Hyperquery vs Observable:
a side-by-side comparison for 2024

Comparing two data science notebooks.

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Hyperquery

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Hyperquery is a data notebook that enables you to easily build shareable analyses in SQL and Python.
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Observable

Website
Make sense of the world with data, together. Explore, visualize, and analyze data. Collaborate with the community. Learn and be inspired. Share insights with the world.
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Hyperquery

Observable

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?

Not Jupyter-compatible
Not Jupyter-compatible

Programming languages

Programming languages

Python
SQL
JS

What kind of data sources can you connect to?

What kind of data sources can you connect to?

Connect to data warehouses (AWS, GCP, etc.)
Connect to databases (Postgres, MS SQL, etc.)
Connect with Jupyter libraries (e.g. SQLAlchemy, psycopg2)
Connect with JS libraries (e.g. REST APIs)
Connect to databases (MySQL, Postgres)
Connect to data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake)
Provided file storage

What kind of data visualization can you do?

What kind of data visualization can you do?

UI for building charts
Jupyter data visualization (e.g. Matplotlib, Altair, Plotly)
JS data visualization (e.g. D3, Vega)

Reactivity

Reactivity

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

Notebook scheduling

Notebook scheduling

No notebook scheduling
No notebook scheduling

Management

Reproducibility

Reproducibility

Environments are reproducible by default
Environments are reproducible by default
Execution is 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
Multiple editors at the same time

Comments

Comments

Comment on items within a notebook
Comment on items within a notebook

Notebook organization

Notebook organization

View notebooks in a tree, like a wiki
View notebooks in a list

Licensing

License

License

Proprietary
Proprietary

Price

Price

Free tier
Pay-per-user
Free tier
Free trial (1 month)
Pay-per-user

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