Which of the many Spark/Scala kernels for Jupyter/IPython to choose?

Question

There are a lot of Scala/Spark kernels for IPython/Jupyter:

1. IScala
2. ISpark
3. Jupyter Scala
4. Apache Toree(prev Spark Kernel)

Does anybody know wich of them is most compatible with IPython/Jupyter and most comfortable to use with:

1. Scala
2. Spark(Scala)

Answer 1

This depends upon an individual.

According to my experience, I found IScala and Jupyter Scala less stable and less polished. Jupyter Scala always prints every variable value after I execute a cell; I don't want to see this 99% of the time.

So, I prefer Spark Kernel and it works very well for using both Scala and Spark.

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