Comparing CoCalc to the Competition
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Online Jupyter Notebooks learn more
Feature | |||||
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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 | ||||
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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 | |||
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Free access for unlimited time | Limited trial with credit card | |||
Full Linux | ||||
Count of of pre-installed packages, by running '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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