Hex vs CoCalc
Comparing two data science notebooks.
Hex
CoCalc
The Data Workspace for Teams. Work with data in collaborative SQL and Python notebooks. Share as interactive data apps that anyone can use.
Your best choice for teaching remote scientific courses.
Setup
Can you self-host?
Can you self-host?
Features
Is it Jupyter compatible?
Is it Jupyter compatible?
Programming languages
Programming languages
What kind of data sources can you connect to?
What kind of data sources can you connect to?
What kind of data visualization can you do?
What kind of data visualization can you do?
Reactivity
Reactivity
Management
Reproducibility
Reproducibility
Comments
Comments
Notebook organization
Notebook organization
Licensing
Price
Price
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Hex | Fully managed | Jupyter-compatible | Jupyter, SQL | Visualize with code or UI | Realtime collaboration | Free and paid options | Proprietary |
CoCalc | Self-hosted or fully managed | Jupyter-compatible | Jupyter | Visualize with code | Realtime collaboration | Free and paid options | Open source |
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Noteable | Self-hosted or fully managed | Jupyter-compatible | Jupyter, SQL | Visualize with code or UI | Realtime collaboration | Free and paid options | Proprietary |
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Querybook | Self-hosted | None | Python | Visualization UI builder | Realtime collaboration | Free | Open source |
Zeppelin | Self-hosted | None | Python, SQL, Spark | Unknown | File-based or asynchronous collaboration | Free | Open source |
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Zepl | Fully managed | Unknown | Python, R | Unknown | Realtime collaboration | Unknown | Proprietary |