Spark

The most popular big data processing tool and the successor to Hadoop Map-Reduce. It is mostly used for ETL (extract transform load), but also includes facilities for streaming aggregations, graph computations, and machine learning.

Logo

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Website

http://spark.apache.org

Repository

https://github.com/apache/spark

Byline

A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing.

License

Apache 2.0

Project age

12 years 8 months

Backers

Apache (Governed by), DataBricks (Commercial Product By)

Lastest News (2021-10-13)

3.2.0 We are happy to announce the availability of Spark 3.2.0! Visit the release notes to read about the new features, or download the … more

Size score (1 to 10, higher is better)

9.25

Trend score (1 to 10, higher is better)

4.5

Education Resources

URL

Resource Type

Description

https://spark.apache.org/docs/3.1.1/

Documentation

Official project documentation.

Git Commit Statistics

Statistics computed using Git data through November 30, 2022.

Statistic

Lifetime

Last 12 Months

Commits

108,271

24,253

Lines committed

47,197,033

5,113,840

Unique committers

2,735

307

Core committers

14

21

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