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 2.0, and Watson Studio Desktop.
* 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 2.0 | Desktop |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collaboration in projects | ✓ | ✓ |  |
| Jupyter notebooks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 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 | ✓ |  |  |
| Model builder | ✓ |  |  |
| AutoAI | ✓ |  |  |
| Decision Optimization | ✓ |  |  |
| Visual Recognition | + | Â | Â |
| Natural Language Classification | + | Â | Â |
| Cognos dashboards | + | Â | Â |
| Streams flows | + | Â | Â |
| Hadoop integration | Â | + | Â |
| Watson Knowledge Catalog integration | + | ✓ |  |
Watson Machine Learning
This table describes the differences in features between Watson Machine Learning Cloud and Watson Machine Learning Local, which is included with Watson Studio Local 2.0.
* 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 2.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Experiments | ✓ | ✓ |
| Spark modeler flows | ✓ |  |
| Collaboration in deployment spaces |  | ✓ |
| Deploy models | ✓ | ✓ |
| Deploy functions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Continuous learning | ✓ |  |
| Performance monitoring | ✓ | ✓ |
| v4 APIs |  | ✓ |
| Batch jobs | ✓ |  |
| Evaluation jobs | ✓ | ✓ |
| Deploy from projects | ✓ | ✓ |
| Watson Machine Learning Accelerator integration | Â | + |
Watson Knowledge Catalog
This table describes the differences in features between Watson Knowledge Catalog Cloud and Watson Knowledge Catalog Lite On Prem, which is included with Watson Studio Local 2.0.
* 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 | Watson Studio Local 2.0 |
|---|---|---|
| More than one catalog | * |
 |
| AI powered search and recommendations | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rating and reviewing assets | ✓ | ✓ |
| Profiling data assets | ✓ |  |
| Remote data sources | * |
✓ |
| Discovery of assets | ✓ |  |
| Asset lineage | * |
 |
| Asset classification | ✓ |  |
| Data classification | ✓ |  |
| Business glossary | * |
 |
| Data protection policies | * |
 |
| Information Governance Catalog integration | * |
 |