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What is Apache Spark?
Apache Spark is a multi-language engine for executing data engineering, data science, and machine learning on single-node machines or clusters. It unifies batch and real-time streaming processing with SQL analytics and machine learning capabilities.
Apache Spark pricing
We don't have Apache Spark's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What Apache Spark does
The capabilities that matter for data engineering tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Tool role
- Orchestrator
- Processing paradigm
- Batch + streaming
- Connector count
- -
- CDC / log-based replication
- -
- In-warehouse transformation (push-down)
- -
- dbt-native orchestration
- -
- Self-hosted / open-source available
- ✓
- Managed cloud available
- ✗
- Data lineage / asset catalog
- -
- Python-first authoring
- ✓
- Incremental / partition-aware runs
- -
- Built-in data quality / tests
- -
- Horizontal scale (distributed executor)
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Linux
- Cloud / SaaS
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Apache Spark alternatives
Other data engineering tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Apache Spark, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing Transparency | 80 | 0.09 | 7.5 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 63 | 0.10 | 6.6 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 100 | 0.06 | 5.8 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 58 | 0.09 | 5.4 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 88 | 0.03 | 2.5 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.08 | 0.0 | - |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.17 | 0.0 | - |
| Release Cadence | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 0.08 | 0.0 | - |
| Package Downloads | 0 | 0.15 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 100 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65% |
Adoption
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 43,759 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"role":"orchestrator","paradigm":"both","python_first":true,"managed_cloud":false,"self_hosted_oss":true,"distributed_executor":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Scala | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | Apache-2.0 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 95% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | {"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]} | highsource · 2026-08-05 · 75% |