explorer VS Phoenix

Compare explorer vs Phoenix and see what are their differences.

explorer

Series (one-dimensional) and dataframes (two-dimensional) for fast and elegant data exploration in Elixir (by elixir-explorer)
InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
www.influxdata.com
featured
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
www.saashub.com
featured
explorer Phoenix
20 111
977 20,600
1.2% 0.4%
9.4 9.3
6 days ago 5 days ago
Elixir Elixir
MIT License MIT License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

explorer

Posts with mentions or reviews of explorer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-08.
  • Polars
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jan 2024
    The Explorer library [0] in Elixir uses Polars underneath it.

    [0] https://github.com/elixir-explorer/explorer

  • Unpacking Elixir: Concurrency
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Aug 2023
  • Elixir Livebook is a secret weapon for documentation
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Aug 2023
    To ensure you do not miss this: LiveBook comes with a Vega Lite integration (https://livebook.dev/integrations -> https://livebook.dev/integrations/vega-lite/), which means you get access to a lot of visualisations out of the box, should you need that (https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/).

    In the same "standing on giant's shoulders" stance, you can use Explorer (see example LiveBook at https://github.com/elixir-explorer/explorer/blob/main/notebo...), which leverages Polars (https://www.pola.rs), a very fast DataFrame library and now a company (https://www.pola.rs/posts/company-announcement/) with 4M$ seed.

  • Does anyone else hate Pandas?
    2 projects | /r/dataengineering | 11 Jun 2023
    Already exists. Check out https://github.com/elixir-nx/explorer which provides a tidyverse-like API in Elixir using polars as the back end.
  • Data wrangling in Elixir with Explorer, the power of Rust, the elegance of R
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Apr 2023
    José from the Livebook team. I don't think I can make a pitch because I have limited Python/R experience to use as reference.

    My suggestion is for you to give it a try for a day or two and see what you think. I am pretty sure you will find weak spots and I would be very happy to hear any feedback you may have. You can find my email on my GitHub profile (same username).

    In general we have grown a lot since the Numerical Elixir effort started two years ago. Here are the main building blocks:

    * Nx (https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx/tree/main/nx#readme): equivalent to Numpy, deeply inspired by JAX. Runs on both CPU and GPU via Google XLA (also used by JAX/Tensorflow) and supports tensor serving out of the box

    * Axon (https://github.com/elixir-nx/axon): Nx-powered neural networks

    * Bumblebee (https://github.com/elixir-nx/bumblebee): Equivalent to HuggingFace Transformers. We have implemented several models and that's what powers the Machine Learning integration in Livebook (see the announcement for more info: https://news.livebook.dev/announcing-bumblebee-gpt2-stable-d...)

    * Explorer (https://github.com/elixir-nx/explorer): Series and DataFrames, as per this thread.

    * Scholar (https://github.com/elixir-nx/scholar): Nx-based traditional Machine Learning. This one is the most recent effort of them all. We are treading the same path as scikit-learn but quite early on. However, because we are built on Nx, everything is derivable, GPU-ready, distributable, etc.

    Regarding visualization, we have "smart cells" for VegaLite and MapLibre, similar to how we did "Data Transformations" in the video above. They help you get started with your visualizations and you can jump deep into the code if necessary.

    I hope this helps!

  • Would you still choose Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView if scaling and performance weren’t an issue to solve for?
    3 projects | /r/elixir | 7 Mar 2023
    There's a package in the Nx ecosystem called Explorer (https://github.com/elixir-nx/explorer). It uses bindings for the rust library, polars, which is much more betterer than Pandas.
  • Updated Erlport alternative ?
    3 projects | /r/elixir | 26 Oct 2022
    FWIW around April this year I started using erlport with python polars in a production ETL app because explorer didn't have the features I needed at the time.
  • ElixirConf 2022 - That's a wrap!
    7 projects | dev.to | 12 Sep 2022
    Machine learning is rapidly expanding within the Elixir ecosystem, with tools such as Nx, Axon, and Explorer being used both by individuals and companies such as Amplified, as mentioned above.
  • Dataframes but for Elixir
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Aug 2022
  • Quick candlestick summaries with Elixir's Explorer
    8 projects | dev.to | 22 Aug 2022

Phoenix

Posts with mentions or reviews of Phoenix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-14.
  • Idempotent seeds in Elixir
    2 projects | dev.to | 14 Mar 2024
    A standard Phoenix app contains a priv/repo/seeds.exs script file, which populates a database when it is run, so that developers can work with a conveniently prepared environment.
  • Ask HN: Did you encounter any Leap Year bugs today? How bad was it?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Feb 2024
    There was one in the Phoenix Framework (Elixir) about issuing certificates with an invalid end date: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/issues/5737

    Interestingly, Azure had this bug some years ago too leading to an outage. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/summary-of-windows-az...

  • Aplicando MVVM en Phoenix LiveView
    4 projects | dev.to | 1 Feb 2024
    Official website: https://www.phoenixframework.org/
  • Things I like about Gleam's Syntax
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Oct 2023
    Since you mention Rails, have you seen https://www.phoenixframework.org/
  • Building Apps with Tauri and Elixir
    14 projects | dev.to | 19 Oct 2023
    Thus, we set out to build a desktop application using a LiveView from the Phoenix Framework in Elixir. For the uninitiated, a LiveView is a process that receives events, updates its state, and renders updates to a page as diffs. The LiveView programming model is declarative: instead of saying “once event X happens, change Y on the page”, events in LiveView are regular messages which may cause changes to its state.
  • Has anybody compared Phoenix Framwork vs. Blazor?
    1 project | /r/Blazor | 11 Oct 2023
    It seems though like Phoenix is similar like Blazor Server (using web socket), but Phoenix is: SEO friendly (first render is plain html) Light weight, scales well and concurrency is first class Easy to develop (runs a local server so you see live updates) Compiled With auth out of the box https://www.phoenixframework.org/
  • Ask HN: Why isn't Phoenix/Elixir more mainstream?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2023
    Sorry to hear this. Phoenix v1.7 changed how it structures files in disk and that broke quite some of the getting started material. However, the guides are always kept up to date, so you can give it a try: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/overview.html

    You can also see the resources on this page listed by year: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/main/guides... - the recent launched ones are most likely up to date.

  • Emoji Generator with AI
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Sep 2023
    Yes! I love Elixir :) [Phoenix LiveView](https://www.phoenixframework.org/) is really amazing. I feel so fast working in it. I got hooked after watching Chris McCord's ['Build a real-time Twitter clone in 15 minutes'](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZvmYaFkNJI&embeds_referring...), and things have improved a lot since then.
  • Ask HN: What's the best modern back end?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Aug 2023
    I still work on a lot of Java projects. As of JDK 17 Java has most of "ML the good parts" and has the same scalable, reliable and high-performance threading Java is famous for. JAX-RS provides a Sinatra style framework that makes it easy to write JSON API back ends. JDK 21 is just about to come out as a long term supported version and it will be even better.

    I do my side projects in Python with aiohttp and think it is a lot of fun even though people tell me it is suicide (I guess if you block the thread you are in trouble)

    I think "Next.js" really wants a node.js backend which has the big advantage that you can share code with the front end and back end. It's basically single-threaded but I know people who are happy with it.

    The system I'd most like to try is

    https://www.phoenixframework.org/

    which is just great if you want to do stuff with websockets that is more interactive than what most people are doing.

  • Ask HN: Leetcode for Back End and Server Development
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jul 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing explorer and Phoenix you can also consider the following projects:

dplyr - dplyr: A grammar of data manipulation

Django - The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

polars - Dataframes powered by a multithreaded, vectorized query engine, written in Rust

sugar - Modular web framework for Elixir

axon - Nx-powered Neural Networks

hotwire-rails - Use Hotwire in your Ruby on Rails app

db-benchmark - reproducible benchmark of database-like ops

kitto - Kitto is a framework for interactive dashboards written in Elixir

arrow2 - Transmute-free Rust library to work with the Arrow format

trot - An Elixir web micro-framework.

wasmex - Execute WebAssembly from Elixir

RIG - Create low-latency, interactive user experiences for stateless microservices.