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.
Looker vs Zeppelin:
a side-by-side comparison for 2024
Comparing two data science notebooks.
Zeppelin
Web-based notebook that enables data-driven, interactive data analytics and collaborative documents with SQL, Scala and more.
Looker
Zeppelin
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
Python
SQL
Spark
What kind of data sources can you connect to?
What kind of data sources can you connect to?
Provided file storage
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
No reactivity, you decide the execution order
Notebook scheduling is built in
Notebook scheduling is built in
Management
Reproducibility
Reproducibility
Unknown
With effort, you can make reproducible environments
No version history
File-based (use Git)
Multiple editors at the same time
File-based (use Git)
Multiple editors, one at a time (asynchronous)
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 (Apache 2.0)
Price
Price
Free tier
Pay for compute
Free