NLTK vs. TextBlob vs. python-sql vs. spaCy Comparison Chart

TextBlob is a Python library for processing textual data, offering a simple API to perform common natural language processing tasks such as part-of-speech tagging, noun phrase extraction, sentiment analysis, and classification. It stands on the giant shoulders of NLTK and Pattern, and plays nicely with both. Key features include tokenization (splitting text into words and sentences), word and phrase frequencies, parsing, n-grams, word inflection (pluralization and singularization) lemmatization, spelling correction, and WordNet integration. TextBlob is compatible with Python versions 2.7 and above, and 3.5 and above. It is actively developed on GitHub and is licensed under the MIT License. Comprehensive documentation, including a quick start guide and tutorials, is available to assist users in implementing various NLP tasks.

spaCy is designed to help you do real work, build real products, or gather real insights. The library respects your time and tries to avoid wasting it. It's easy to install, and its API is simple and productive. spaCy excels at large-scale information extraction tasks. It's written from the ground up in carefully memory-managed Cython. If your application needs to process entire web dumps, spaCy is the library you want to be using. Since its release in 2015, spaCy has become an industry standard with a huge ecosystem. Choose from a variety of plugins, integrate with your machine learning stack, and build custom components and workflows. Components for named entity recognition, part-of-speech tagging, dependency parsing, sentence segmentation, text classification, lemmatization, morphological analysis, entity linking, and more. Easily extensible with custom components and attributes. Easy model packaging, deployment, and workflow management.