Mode Notebooks
WebsiteNative R & Python Notebooks. From SQL, explore your analysis using R or Python Notebooks.
Mode Notebooks vs VS Code:
a side-by-side comparison for 2024
Comparing two data science notebooks.
VS Code
WebsiteVisual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor. It supports working with Jupyter Notebooks natively, as well as through Python code files.
Mode Notebooks
VS Code
Setup
Fully managed (setup in minutes)
No, you must host it yourself
Can you self-host?
Can you self-host?
No, you must use a managed offering
You can self-host (setup in hours)
Features
Is it Jupyter compatible?
Is it Jupyter compatible?
Not Jupyter-compatible
Jupyter-compatible
Programming languages
Programming languages
SQL
R
Python
Jupyter languages (e.g. Python, R)
What kind of data sources can you connect to?
What kind of data sources can you connect to?
Connect to databases (MariaDB, PostgreSQL, etc.)
Connect to data warehouses (Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, etc.)
Connect with Jupyter libraries (e.g. SQLAlchemy, psycopg2)
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
No reactivity, you decide the execution order
No reactivity, you decide the execution order
Notebook scheduling is built in
Notebook scheduling with additional tools
Management
Reproducibility
Reproducibility
Environments are reproducible by default
There is no support for reproducibility
No version history
File-based (use Git)
Multiple editors, one at a time (asynchronous)
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
Unknown
Free