This document provides an overview of Apache Spark, including:
- Spark is an open-source cluster computing framework that supports in-memory processing of large datasets across clusters of computers using a concept called resilient distributed datasets (RDDs).
- RDDs allow data to be partitioned across nodes in a fault-tolerant way, and support operations like map, filter, and reduce.
- Spark SQL, DataFrames, and Datasets provide interfaces for structured and semi-structured data processing.
- The document discusses Spark's performance advantages over Hadoop MapReduce and provides examples of common Spark applications like word count, Pi estimation, and stream processing.