Compare and contrast to spark-notebook and Zeppelin

[dragos]

There are a number of notebooks out there that support Spark. What is the difference between this one and, for instance, spark-notebook and Zeppelin? I think this should be a section in the README.

[tribbloid]

Thanks a lot for your suggestion! I'll write a few words as my humble opinion: ISpark is built to be simple, lightweight, and as close to spark-shell as possible, it doesn't seek to add any feature on top of existing spark components (except maybe visualization), so it can be submitted like other spark application and minimize effort in QA (for problems in classloaders, reflective programming etc.). I'm not a master in Scala, yet Spark interpreter is a complex project still under improvement. So maybe its for the best to keep this principal in mind.

[javadba]

@tribbloid : The OP asked about spark-notebook, not ispark.