h2o_wave vs. panel vs. streamlit, etc.

[bryanwhiting]

Hello!

I'm sure this will start a 🔥 ... I was reading this: https://medium.com/@marcskovmadsen/i-prefer-to-use-panel-for-my-data-apps-here-is-why-1ff5d2b98e8f and really benefitted from comparing panel to streamlit.

One thing I love about panel's design is how easy it is to get something up and running (without using all the pages/cards). I love h2o_wave because it looks beautiful. I get the feeling that wave would be faster than its competitors.

Curious to hear others' feedback on why they chose wave vs. other tools?

[mturoci]

Leaving this up to the community to answer (although it might not get a lot of traction here).

The general answer as a core team is :

While we don't have an official comparison, the general thing we say to our sales people is: Look at app showcase (at wave.h2o.ai) and ask yourself if these kinds of apps would be possible to do in Streamlit.

If that's not enough, Wave is more feature-rich:

• More widgets.
• Auth support out of the box without lockin to a custom cloud platform.
• Dev tooling - VScode/Jetbrains plugins to ease development.

The best answer though is to play around a bit and see the differences for yourself.

One thing I love about panel's design is how easy it is to get something up and running (without using all the pages/cards)

That's fair. Wave has a bit more verbose, but gives you more control over the layout on the other hand (based on very brief look at the docs). You can try wave init cli command once you pip install Wave to get up and running in no time.