Beaker Notebook vs. Bokeh vs. MicroPython vs. PySpark Comparison Chart

BeakerX is a collection of kernels and extensions to the Jupyter interactive computing environment. It provides JVM support, Spark cluster support, polyglot programming, interactive plots, tables, forms, publishing, and more. All of BeakerX’s JVM languages plus Python and JavaScript have APIs for interactive time-series, scatter plots, histograms, heatmaps, and treemaps. The widgets remain interactive in both notebooks saved to disk, and notebooks published to the web. They include unique features for handling many points, nanosecond resolution, zooming, and exporting. BeakerX’s table widget automatically recognizes pandas data frames and allows you to search, sort, drag, filter, format, select, graph, hide, pin, and export to CSV or clipboard. This makes connecting to spreadsheets quickly and easy. BeakerX has a Spark magic with GUIs for configuration, status, progress, and interrupt of Spark jobs. You can either use the GUI or create your own SparkSession with code.

The MicroPython pyboard is a compact electronic circuit board that runs MicroPython on the bare metal, giving you a low-level Python operating system that can be used to control all kinds of electronic projects. MicroPython is packed full of advanced features such as an interactive prompt, arbitrary precision integers, closures, list comprehension, generators, exception handling and more. Yet it is compact enough to fit and run within just 256k of code space and 16k of RAM. MicroPython aims to be as compatible with normal Python as possible to allow you to transfer code with ease from the desktop to a microcontroller or embedded system.