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Jupyter vs Mode Notebooks:
a side-by-side comparison for 2024

Comparing two data science notebooks.

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Jupyter

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Project Jupyter exists to develop open-source software, open-standards, and services for interactive computing across dozens of programming languages. There's a number of vendors offering Jupyter notebooks as a managed service.
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Mode Notebooks

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Native R & Python Notebooks. From SQL, explore your analysis using R or Python Notebooks.
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Jupyter

Mode Notebooks

Setup

Is it managed?

Is it managed?

No, you must host it yourself
Fully managed (setup in minutes)

Can you self-host?

Can you self-host?

You can self-host (setup in hours)
No, you must use a managed offering

Features

Is it Jupyter compatible?

Is it Jupyter compatible?

Jupyter-compatible
Not Jupyter-compatible

Programming languages

Programming languages

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

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 databases (MariaDB, PostgreSQL, etc.)
Connect to data warehouses (Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, etc.)

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

Reactivity

Reactivity

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

Notebook scheduling

Notebook scheduling

Notebook scheduling with additional tools
Notebook scheduling is built in

Management

Reproducibility

Reproducibility

With effort, you can make reproducible environments
Environments are reproducible by default

Version history

Version history

File-based (use Git)
No version history

Collaborative editing

Collaborative editing

File-based (use Git)
Multiple editors, one at a time (asynchronous)

Comments

Comments

File-based (use GitHub)
No support for comments

Notebook organization

Notebook organization

File-based
View notebooks in a list

Licensing

License

License

Open-source (BSD)
Proprietary

Price

Price

Free
Unknown

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