Apache Spark Alternatives

Apache Spark is described as 'Multi-language engine for executing data engineering, data science, and machine learning on single-node machines or clusters' and is a Cloud Computing service in the business & commerce category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Apache Spark for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, SaaS and Web-based apps. The best Apache Spark alternative is Apache Hadoop, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Apache Spark are Amazon Kinesis, ILUM, Apache Flink and Disco MapReduce.

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  1. Apache Hadoop icon

    Apache Hadoop

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    Apache Hadoop is a open source software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications licensed under the Apache v2 license. It enables applications to work with thousands of computational independent computers and petabytes of data.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     

    • Apache Hadoop is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Apache Spark.

    • Apache Hadoop is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Apache Spark.

    • Apache Hadoop is Free and Open SourceApache Spark is also Free and Open Source
  2. Amazon Kinesis icon

    Amazon Kinesis

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    Amazon Kinesis services make it easy to work with real-time streaming data in the AWS cloud.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
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    • Amazon Kinesis is the most popular SaaS alternative to Apache Spark.

    • Amazon Kinesis is the most popular commercial alternative to Apache Spark.

    • Amazon Kinesis is Paid and ProprietaryApache Spark is Free and Open Source
  4. ILUM icon

    ILUM

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    Ilum is a free data lakehouse platform designed for scalability, flexibility, and simplicity.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Kubernetes
    ilum free data lakehouse
     

    • ILUM is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Apache Spark.

    • ILUM is Freemium and ProprietaryApache Spark is Free and Open Source
    • ILUM is Lightweight and Privacy focusedApache Spark is not according to our users
  5. Apache Flink icon

    Apache Flink

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    Flink’s core is a streaming dataflow engine that provides data distribution, communication, and fault tolerance for distributed computations over data streams.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  6. Disco MapReduce icon

    Disco MapReduce

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    Disco is a lightweight, open-source framework for distributed computing based on the MapReduce paradigm and written in Python.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Heron icon

    Heron

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    Apache Heron (Incubating) is a realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine from Twitter.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. Apache Storm icon

    Apache Storm

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    Apache Storm is a free and open source distributed realtime computation system. Storm makes it easy to reliably process unbounded streams of data, doing for realtime processing what Hadoop did for batch processing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  10. S2 icon

    S2

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    Object storage has been nothing short of revolutionary. S3 broke ground in 2006 with simple storage operations on named objects – and 18 years later, S3 Express One Zone even allows appends. But ultimately, object storage is all about blobs and byte ranges.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Homebrew
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    • S2 is the most popular Web-based alternative to Apache Spark.

    • S2 is Freemium and ProprietaryApache Spark is Free and Open Source
  11. Timeplus Proton icon

    Timeplus Proton

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    Proton is a unified streaming and historical data processing engine in a single binary. It helps data engineers and platform engineers solve complex real-time analytics use cases, and powers the Timeplus streaming analytics platform.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  12. Upsolver icon

    Upsolver

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    Upsolver is an In-Memory Data Preparation Platform. It removes the complexity from Big Data and Real-Time projects and shortens their implementation time from weeks/months to several hours, literally.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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