Comparing CoCalc to the Competition
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Online Jupyter Notebooks learn more
| Feature | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100% compatibility | |||||
| Programming languages | Python, Sage, R, Octave, and many more | Python, R, etc. and customizable | Python 3 | Python 3 | Python 3, ...? |
| IPython Widgets | |||||
| File sharing between users | |||||
| Realtime collaboration: multiple people use the same notebook together | Possible via extension to JupyterLab. | ||||
| Persistence | Notebook persists, but data and files do not. | ||||
| Large preinstalled software environment | Linux with around 10K packages | Limited | Linux with around 350 packages | ||
| Access | Free and paid | Free only | Free and paid | Free and paid | Free and paid |
| Disk space | 3GB/project for free | Ephemeral | |||
| Public Google-indexed searchable publishing of files | Paid | ||||
| Self hosting | |||||
| Open source | No (GPLv3 + noncommercial use clause) | ||||
| GPUs | Only when self hosted | Only when self hosted | Yes, for free! |
Online LaTeX Editors learn more
| Feature | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Realtime collaboration and sync | Limited number of collaborators | |||
| PDFLaTeX rendering engine | ||||
| XeLaTeX rendering engine | ||||
| LuaTeX rendering engine | ||||
| Upload files | ||||
| Forward and inverse search | N/A | |||
| Multifile support | N/A | |||
| WYSIWYG | This is only a partial WYSIWYG-like mode. | |||
| Equation editor | ||||
| Bibliography | Only BibTex via LaTeX (nothing sophisticated) | Limited | ||
| Preloaded journal templates | However, you can easily upload a template from a journal. | |||
| Run Python, R and other scripts as part of compilation | CoCalc is particularly good at this. | But limited. | ||
| R/Knitr | Limited - very few packages, limited syntax, no caching, slow | |||
| SageTex | ||||
| PythonTex | ||||
| Self hosting |
Online Linux Terminal learn more
| Feature | GCE/AWS/Azure Clouds | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free access for unlimited time | Limited trial with credit card | |||
| Full Linux | ||||
| Count of of pre-installed packages, by runing 'apt list --installed | wc -l' or 'rpm -qa | wc -l' | ~ 9500 | N/A | ~ 200 | ~ 700 |
| Copy/paste | ||||
| Periodic backups of your data | ||||
| Persistent of your data | ||||
| Ease of setup and configuration | Easy | Hard | Very Easy | Medium |
| Root access | Limited |
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