This document discusses Spark, an open-source cluster computing framework. It notes that while Hadoop is useful for batch processing, it has limitations for interactive and iterative algorithms. Spark addresses these issues through its resilient distributed datasets (RDDs) which can be operated on in parallel and rebuilt if lost. RDDs support transformations like map and filter as well as actions that return values. The document provides examples of using Spark from Scala and discusses its architecture involving a DAG scheduler and task scheduler.