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Looker vs Amazon Sagemaker:
a side-by-side comparison for 2024

Comparing two data science notebooks.

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Looker

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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Amazon Sagemaker

Amazon SageMaker helps data scientists and developers to prepare, build, train, and deploy high-quality machine learning (ML) models quickly by bringing together a broad set of capabilities purpose-built for ML.

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Looker

Amazon Sagemaker

Setup

Is it managed?

Is it managed?

Fully managed (setup in hours)
Fully managed (setup in hours)

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
Jupyter-compatible

Programming languages

Programming languages

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

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)
AWS

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)

Reactivity

Reactivity

Reactivity with caveats
No reactivity, you decide the execution order

Notebook scheduling

Notebook scheduling

Notebook scheduling is built in
Notebook scheduling with additional tools

Management

Reproducibility

Reproducibility

Unknown
There is no support for reproducibility

Version history

Version history

No version history
File-based (use Git)

Collaborative editing

Collaborative editing

Multiple editors at the same time
No support for collaborative editors

Comments

Comments

No support for comments
File-based (use GitHub)

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
Free tier
Pay for compute

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