Apache Spark Apache Spark is an open source parallel processing framework for running large-scale data analytics applications across clustered computers. It can handle both batch and real-time analytics and data processing workloads. Spark became a top-level project of the Apache Software Foundation in February 2014, and version 1.0 of Apache Spark was released in May 2014. Spark version 2.0 was released in July 2016. The technology was initially designed in 2009 by researchers at the Uni...