Hopsworks looks like it might be exactly what I need, I do typical data science work for small to small-medium data and wanted to start properly playing with sp

Hopsworks looks like it might be exactly what I need, I do typical data science work for small to small-medium data and wanted to start properly playing with spark on a HDFS store. Currently most work is just done in R/Python in VM's on a small proxmox cluster (where only 1 node is always on) but I'd like start gently moving to spark, run the stack on a single node and scale on demand. Is Hopsworks for me, does this approach even make sense for such small data or am I crazy? Thanks for your response!