Neptune vs Pachyderm

Neptune

Pachyderm
Commercial Requirements
Standalone component. ML metadata store that focuses on experiment tracking and model registry

Standalone tool

Can be hosted both on-prem and on the cloud
Managed cloud service

Base package is open-source, with an enterprise grade commercial offering available

Ranges from a free to use open-source plan to enterprise grade commercial offerings. Read more about their enterprise offeringĀ here

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General Capabilities
No special requirements other than having the neptune-client installed and access to the internet if using managed hosting. Check here for infrastructure requirements for on-prem deployment
Minimal. Just a few lines of code needed for tracking. Read more

Extensive code and infrastructure changes required. Check theirĀ quick start to get an overview
Yes, through the neptune-clientlibrary

Yes, through theirĀ CLI

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Model Registry
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What are the key differences then?

- Neptune is a metadata store with the main focus on experiment tracking and model registry
- Pachyderm serves, above all, for data processing and orchestration.
Neptune and Pachyderm are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they can be complimentary element of the MLOps stack.
Check how to start using Neptune.
See these features in action
Sign up to Neptune and install client library
pip install neptune-client
Track experiments
import neptune.new as neptune
run = neptune.init_run()
run["params"] = {
"lr": 0.1, "dropout": 0.4
}
run["test_accuracy"] = 0.84
Register models
import neptune.new as neptune
model = neptune.init_model()
model["model"] = {
"size_limit": 50.0,
"size_units": "MB",
}
model["model/signature"].upload(
"model_signature.json")
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It only takes 5 minutes to integrate Neptune with your code
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