JupyterLab vs Whole Tale
JupyterLab
jupyter.orgWhole Tale
wholetale.orgSide by side
| Figure | JupyterLab | Whole Tale |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Coding Playgrounds | 9.1 (#9) | 7.5 (#100) |
| Collaboration | Real-time collaboration can be activated by installing the jupyter_collaboration extension. | Users can share Tales with other Whole Tale users using read or edit permissions. |
| Deployment | JupyterLab can be installed with pip, and the installation page also gives a Homebrew command for macOS and Linux. | The project describes the platform as a building block intended to be deployable in a variety of environments. |
| Founded | 2014 | 2016 |
| Purpose | JupyterLab is a web-based interactive development environment for notebooks, code, and data. | Whole Tale is an open-source, web-based platform for creating, publishing, and running reproducible research objects called Tales. |
| Security | JavaScript and HTML outputs in notebooks created on other machines are sanitized and not displayed until the notebook is trusted. | The documentation says Whole Tale uses Globus Auth for authentication and access to data on users’ behalf through the Globus network. |
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In their own words
JupyterLab
JupyterLab is a web-based environment for interactive work with notebooks, code and data. Its workspace brings notebooks, text editors, terminals and custom components together in tabs and splitters. Code consoles act as scratchpads, and kernel-backed documents can run code in files such as Markdown, Python, R and LaTeX. It supports the .ipynb format used by classic Jupyter Notebook, and can view and edit formats including Markdown, images, CSV, JSON, HTML, LaTeX and PDF. Visualization libraries include matplotlib and Plotly; interactive plots or widgets may require additional packages. Extensions can add themes, viewers, editors, output renderers and interface controls, but can execute code in the browser, server and kernel, so only trusted extensions are advised. Real-time collaboration can be enabled with jupyter_collaboration. JavaScript and HTML outputs from notebooks created elsewhere remain hidden until the notebook is trusted. JupyterLab is free, open-source software under a modified BSD license, installed with pip or via a Homebrew command for macOS and Linux. It runs on Linux, macOS, the web and self-hosted systems.
Whole Tale
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