Beaker Notebook vs. Bokeh vs. IBM Analytics for Apache Spark vs. Python 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.

IBM Analytics for Apache Spark is a flexible and integrated Spark service that empowers data science professionals to ask bigger, tougher questions, and deliver business value faster. It’s an easy-to-use, always-on managed service with no long-term commitment or risk, so you can begin exploring right away. Access the power of Apache Spark with no lock-in, backed by IBM’s open-source commitment and decades of enterprise experience. A managed Spark service with Notebooks as a connector means coding and analytics are easier and faster, so you can spend more of your time on delivery and innovation. A managed Apache Spark services gives you easy access to the power of built-in machine learning libraries without the headaches, time and risk associated with managing a Sparkcluster independently.