Pandas vs KNIME: What are the differences?

Developers describe Pandas as "High-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools for the Python programming language". Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more. On the other hand, KNIME is detailed as "Create and productionize data science using one easy and intuitive environment". It is a free and open-source data analytics, reporting and integration platform. KNIME integrates various components for machine learning and data mining through its modular data pipelining concept.

Pandas and KNIME can be categorized as "Data Science" tools.

Some of the features offered by Pandas are:

• Easy handling of missing data (represented as NaN) in floating point as well as non-floating point data
• Size mutability: columns can be inserted and deleted from DataFrame and higher dimensional objects
• Automatic and explicit data alignment: objects can be explicitly aligned to a set of labels, or the user can simply ignore the labels and let Series, DataFrame, etc. automatically align the data for you in computations

On the other hand, KNIME provides the following key features:

• Access, merge, and transform all of your data
• Make sense of your data with the tools you choose
• Support enterprise-wide data science practices

Pandas is an open source tool with 25.9K GitHub stars and 10.6K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Pandas's open source repository on GitHub.