Web-based notebooks are really helpful because they provide rich visualizations and high developer productivity and make it easy to share with others. While there are many open source-based notebooks available, the most popular notebooks are Jupyter and Apache Zeppelin. The Jupyter Notebook is very mature, supports over 40 languages, and integrates with Spark and Hadoop to query interactively and visualize results. Apache Zeppelin is a web-based notebook that enables data-driven, interactive analytics with built-in visualizations. There are many similarities between Jupyter and Zeppelin, but Zeppelin is tightly integrated with Spark and Hadoop, and it is also possible to include multiple languages in the same notebook.
Hue 3.8 introduced Spark-based notebooks, which are inspired by IPython Notebooks that provide built-in visualizations. The Spark Notebook works on the Livy REST job server backend to provide Spark as a service to end users. The Livy job server exposes both batch and...