Looker
WebsiteLooker is a powerful BI tool that allows data analysts to create interactive dashboards, explore and analyze data from multiple sources with ease, and ensure robust data governance.
Looker vs Mode Notebooks:
a side-by-side comparison for 2024
Comparing two data science notebooks.
Mode Notebooks
WebsiteNative R & Python Notebooks. From SQL, explore your analysis using R or Python Notebooks.
Looker
Mode Notebooks
Setup
Fully managed (setup in hours)
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
SQL
SQL
R
Python
What kind of data sources can you connect to?
What kind of data sources can you connect to?
Provided file storage
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?
UI for building charts
UI for building charts
Reactivity
Reactivity
Reactivity with caveats
No reactivity, you decide the execution order
Notebook scheduling is built in
Notebook scheduling is built in
Management
Reproducibility
Reproducibility
Unknown
Environments are reproducible by default
No version history
No version history
Multiple editors at the same time
Multiple editors, one at a time (asynchronous)
Comments
Comments
No support for comments
No support for comments
Notebook organization
Notebook organization
View notebooks in a list
View notebooks in a list
Licensing
License
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Price
Price
Free tier
Pay for compute
Unknown