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Looker vs Noteable:
a side-by-side comparison for 2024

Comparing two data science notebooks.

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Looker

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Looker 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.
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Noteable

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Noteable is a collaborative notebook platform that enables teams to use and visualize data, together.
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Looker

Noteable

Setup

Is it managed?

Is it managed?

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)
You can self-host (setup in hours)

Features

Is it Jupyter compatible?

Is it Jupyter compatible?

Jupyter-compatible
Jupyter-compatible

Programming languages

Programming languages

SQL
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?

Provided file storage
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?

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

Reactivity

Reactivity

Reactivity with caveats
No reactivity, you decide the execution order

Notebook scheduling

Notebook scheduling

Notebook scheduling is built in
Notebook scheduling is built in
Notebook scheduling with additional tools

Management

Reproducibility

Reproducibility

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

Version history

Version history

No version history
Version history is built in

Collaborative editing

Collaborative editing

Multiple editors at the same time
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 for compute
Free tier
Pay-per-user
Pay for compute

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