Can't exactly see the value this brings that Apache Zeppelin doesn't already offer.
Zeppelin has source available, or a binary package with a spark interpreter, or a binary package with "all interpreters". That one is 712MB. If I just want to use it, I still don't understand what to actually do. I'm downloading the big .tgz as we speak.
Following the installation guide,
A:\TEMP\zeppelin\zeppelin-0.7.1-bin-all>bin\zeppelin.cmd Log dir doesn't exist, create A:\TEMP\zeppelin\zeppelin-0.7.1-bin-all\logs Pid dir doesn't exist, create A:\TEMP\zeppelin\zeppelin-0.7.1-bin-all\run The system cannot find the path specified.
A:\TEMP\zeppelin\zeppelin-0.7.1-bin-all>mkdir logs A subdirectory or file logs already exists.
A:\TEMP\zeppelin\zeppelin-0.7.1-bin-all>bin\zeppelin.cmd The system cannot find the path specified.
And now I'm completely stuck.
So the value in this compared to Zeppelin is that it's small, straight-forward, and simple.
The very first "terminal" like thing I learned as a really young kid was how to load a floppy disk, which usually just meant typing a:.
Memories.
If you already have a trusted Zeppelin or Jupyter or other notebook, then this may not be needed, but if you want to keep all local, this may be a quick and easy alternative... assuming you like SQL.