Apache Spark™ is a powerful open-source processing engine built around speed, ease of use, and sophisticated analytics. Spark began at UC Berkeley in 2009, and it is now developed at the vendor-independent Apache Software Foundation. Since its initial release, Spark has seen rapid adoption by enterprises across wide-ranging industries. Internet powerhouses such as Facebook, Hotels.com, Cisco, Microsoft, and Netflix have deployed Spark at massive scale, processing multiple petabytes of data on clusters of more than 8,000 nodes. Apache Spark™ has also become the largest open-source community in big data, with more than 1,000 contributors from over 250 organizations. Learn more