It's got a straight-forward installer that's 6MB. I was able to run it and use it in seconds.

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.