Apache Spark Alternatives

Apache Spark is described as *'fast and general engine for large-scale data processing. Speed Run programs up to 100x faster than Hadoop MapReduce in memory, or 10x faster on disk.

Spark has an advanced DAG execution engine that supports cyclic data flow and in-memory computing'* and is a Cloud Computing service in the business & commerce category. There are eight alternatives to Apache Spark for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Online / Web-based and BSD. The best alternative is Apache Flink, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Apache Spark are Apache Hadoop, Amazon Kinesis, Disco MapReduce and Heron.

Apache Spark alternatives are mainly Cloud Computing Services but may also be Web Analytics Services. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Apache Spark.

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Apache Spark

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Apache Flink
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13 alternatives to Apache Flink
Flink’s core is a streaming dataflow engine that provides data distribution, communication, and fault tolerance for distributed computations over data streams.
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Apache Hadoop
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7 alternatives to Apache Hadoop
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.
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Amazon Kinesis
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6 alternatives to Amazon Kinesis
Amazon Kinesis services make it easy to work with real-time streaming data in the AWS cloud.
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Disco MapReduce
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6 alternatives to Disco MapReduce
Disco is an implementation of mapreduce for distributed computing. Disco supports parallel computations over large data sets, stored on an unreliable cluster of computers, as in the original framework created by Google.
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Heron
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4 alternatives to Heron
Apache Heron (Incubating) is a realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine from Twitter.
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Apache Storm
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5 alternatives to Apache Storm
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.
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Gearpump
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Apache Gearpump is a real-time big data streaming engine. The name Gearpump is a reference to the engineering term “gear pump” which is a super simple pump that consists of only two gears, but is very powerful at streaming water.

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Upsolver
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3 alternatives to Upsolver
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.
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