Apache Spark vs. IBM Analytics for Apache Spark vs. JavaScript vs. Visual Basic Comparison Chart

IBM Analytics for Apache Spark is a flexible and integrated Spark service that empowers data science professionals to ask bigger, tougher questions, and deliver business value faster. It’s an easy-to-use, always-on managed service with no long-term commitment or risk, so you can begin exploring right away. Access the power of Apache Spark with no lock-in, backed by IBM’s open-source commitment and decades of enterprise experience. A managed Spark service with Notebooks as a connector means coding and analytics are easier and faster, so you can spend more of your time on delivery and innovation. A managed Apache Spark services gives you easy access to the power of built-in machine learning libraries without the headaches, time and risk associated with managing a Sparkcluster independently.

Visual Basic is an object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft. Using Visual Basic makes it fast and easy to create type-safe .NET apps. Visual Basic focuses on supplying more of the features of the Visual Basic Runtime (microsoft.visualbasic.dll) to .NET Core and is the first version of Visual Basic focused on .NET Core. Many portions of the Visual Basic Runtime depend on WinForms and these will be added in a later version of Visual Basic. .NET is a free, open-source development platform for building many kinds of apps. With .NET, your code and project files look and feel the same no matter which type of app you're building. You have access to the same runtime, API, and language capabilities with each app. A Visual Basic program is built up from standard building blocks. A solution comprises one or more projects. A project in turn can contain one or more assemblies. Each assembly is compiled from one or more source files.