Feature differences between editions

Watson Studio, Watson Machine Learning, and Watson Knowledge Catalog have some differences in features between editions for IBM Cloud and on-premises.

The features listed are the ones available in the most comprehensive plan for each edition.

Watson Studio

This table describes the feature differences between Watson Studio Cloud, Watson Studio Local 2.1, and Watson Studio Desktop. The Watson Studio service on Cloud Pak for Data 2.5 has the same features as Watson Studio Local 2.1.

* indicates that the feature is limited or not available in some offering plans. See Offering plans.

+ indicates that the feature requires an additional service that might cost extra.

Feature Cloud Local 2.1 Desktop
Collaboration in projects ✓ ✓  
Jupyter notebooks ✓ ✓ ✓
JupyterLab   ✓  
Data Refinery ✓ ✓ ✓
Project import and export ✓ ✓ ✓
Git integration   ✓  
Crowd sourced annotation *    
RStudio ✓ +  
Remote data sources * ✓ ✓
Personal credentials   ✓  
Upload data files ✓ ✓ ✓
Link to data files     ✓
Environment runtimes ✓ ✓, +  
Job scheduling ✓ ✓  
SPSS Modeler flows ✓ + ✓
Neural Network modeler ✓    
Decision Optimization ✓ +  
Visual Recognition +    
Natural Language Classification +    
Analytics dashboards + +  
Streams flows +    
Hadoop integration   +  
Watson Knowledge Catalog integration + ✓  


Watson Machine Learning

This table describes the differences in features between Watson Machine Learning Cloud, Watson Machine Learning Server 1.0 for Watson Studio Desktop, and the Watson Machine Learning service for Watson Studio Local 2.1. The Watson Machine Learning service on Cloud Pak for Data 2.5 has the same functionality as on Watson Studio Local 2.1.

* indicates that the feature is limited or not available in some offering plans. See Offering plans.

+ indicates that the feature requires an additional service that might cost extra.

Feature Cloud Local 2.1 Server 1.0
Experiments ✓ ✓  
AutoAI ✓ ✓  
Spark modeler flows ✓    
Collaboration in deployment spaces   ✓ ✓
Deploy models ✓ ✓ ✓
Deploy functions ✓ ✓ ✓
Continuous learning ✓    
Performance monitoring ✓ ✓ ✓
v4 APIs   ✓ ✓
Batch deployments ✓ ✓ ✓
Online deployments ✓ ✓ ✓
Virtual deployments ✓ ✓ ✓
Evaluation jobs ✓ ✓  
Deploy from projects ✓ ✓  
Watson Machine Learning Accelerator integration   +  


Watson Knowledge Catalog

This table describes the differences in features between Watson Knowledge Catalog Cloud, Watson Knowledge Catalog Lite On Prem, which is included with Watson Studio Local 2.1, and the Watson Knowledge Catalog service on Cloud Pak for Data 2.5.

* indicates that the feature is limited or not available in some offering plans. See Offering plans.

+ indicates that the feature requires an additional service or an add-on that might cost extra.

Feature Cloud Local 2.1 Cloud Pak for Data 2.5
Number of catalogs * 1 Unlimited
Number of assets * 50 Unlimited
Number of collaborators * 50 Unlimited
AI powered search and recommendations ✓ ✓ ✓
Rating and reviewing assets ✓ ✓ ✓
Collaboration in projects ✓ ✓ ✓
Data Refinery ✓ ✓ ✓
Profiling of relational data ✓   ✓
Remote data sources * ✓ ✓
Personal credentials   ✓ ✓
Basic discovery of assets ✓   ✓
Advanced discovery of assets     ✓
Data quality analysis     ✓
Automated term assignment     ✓
Asset lineage *   ✓
Operational data lineage     ✓
Information assets view     ✓
Predefined classifications ✓   ✓
Custom classifications     ✓
Predefined data classes ✓   ✓
Custom data classes     ✓
Business terms *   ✓
Policies *   ✓
Data protection rules *   ✓
Governance rules     ✓
Reference data sets     ✓
Custom attributes     ✓
Governance artifact workflow     ✓
Information Governance Catalog integration *   Â