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 Pluto.jl:
a side-by-side comparison for 2024
Comparing two data science notebooks.
Pluto.jl
WebsiteWriting a notebook is not just about writing the final document — Pluto empowers the experiments and discoveries that are essential to getting there.
Looker
Pluto.jl
Setup
Fully managed (setup in hours)
No, you must host it yourself
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
Not Jupyter-compatible
Programming languages
Programming languages
SQL
Julia
What kind of data sources can you connect to?
What kind of data sources can you connect to?
Provided file storage
Unknown
What kind of data visualization can you do?
What kind of data visualization can you do?
UI for building charts
Unknown
Reactivity
Reactivity
Reactivity with caveats
Full, realtime reactivity
Notebook scheduling is built in
No notebook scheduling
Management
Reproducibility
Reproducibility
Unknown
Execution is reproducible by default
No version history
File-based (use Git)
Multiple editors at the same time
File-based (use Git)
Comments
Comments
No support for comments
File-based (use GitHub)
Notebook organization
Notebook organization
View notebooks in a list
File-based
Licensing
License
License
Proprietary
Open-source (MIT)
Price
Price
Free tier
Pay for compute
Free