Should I use the Notebooks or the Workbench page?ΒΆ
Here are some tips to help you to choose between Notebooks and Workbench:
| Jupyter Notebooks | Workbench |
| Use Jupyter Notebooks to perform interactive data analysis and seamlessly build AI/ML models using Spark or custom Python packages. Generally used by data scientists. | Use Workbench to perform ad hoc analysis of data in a data lake or other connected data source. Generally used by data analysts and data engineers. |
| Supports only the Spark engine. | Supports multiple engines such as Hive, Spark, Presto, etc. |
| Provides visualization capabilities. | No inbuilt visualization capabilities. You must download result sets in the data visualization tool of your choice. |
| Allows offline edits (without attaching a cluster). | Not applicable. |