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Abhishek K

August 14, 2025 Source: G2.com

Apache Spark: Fast, Capable, But Needs Care to Run Well

What do you like best about Spark?

Spark is great for working with really large amounts of data. It can handle both batch jobs and streaming data, and it works with different file types and data sources. It’s much faster than older systems because it can process data in memory.

What do you dislike about Spark?

Recommendations to others considering Spark?

I also like that it has built-in tools for data queries, streaming, and even machine learning, so you can do a lot without switching platforms.

What problems is Spark solving and how is that benefiting you?

Spark is not as “easy” as people think. If it’s not set up or tuned properly, it can run slowly or cost a lot to operate. One small mistake in how you write or run a job can slow everything down.

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Seetharami Reddy B

March 11, 2025 Source: G2.com

Elt related Easy to learn

What do you like best about Spark?

.It’s fast when compared to Hadoop as it is a in memory processing engine

What do you dislike about Spark?

Nothing as of now as it’s advanced version of Hadoop disk memory

What problems is Spark solving and how is that benefiting you?

It’s completely related to data engineering like performing etl and

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Gowtham Raj B

November 27, 2024 Source: G2.com

Large scale data analytics on big data using Spark and Knime

What do you like best about Spark?

Integration with powerful scripting languages (Python, Scala and Java).

What do you dislike about Spark?

Consume available Apache datastore files for developing ML models and quickly deploy to production.

Recommendations to others considering Spark?

Integration with Knime provided no-code development of ETL pipelines, and merging with Apache datastores allowed us to quickly educate the traditional talent (SQL and Excel-based) to build robust data insights.

What problems is Spark solving and how is that benefiting you?

Knime platform integration with Spark did not require any additional computing power as it performed all the processing on the Spark infrastructure.

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Yash V V

September 30, 2023 Source: G2.com

Extraordinary Big data processing and optimization.

What do you like best about Spark?

I love the speed of data processing. Also the Immense Ecosystem of integration with APIs and the huge amount of optimization in memory we can achieve through it.

What do you dislike about Spark?

It is very easy to use and implement with versatile data processing approaches we can achieve through it and also the customer support with community help is great!

Recommendations to others considering Spark?

It needs a steep learning curve as non-tech persons or beginners may find it very complex.

What problems is Spark solving and how is that benefiting you?

When the data complexity is huge, it is hard to debug and find bugs in the processed big data.

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Nishu B

August 8, 2023 Source: G2.com

Open source engine for large scale data processing

What do you like best about Spark?

Resilient distributed dataset makes it immutable and fault tolerance.

What do you dislike about Spark?

Spark does not having its own file manager.

What problems is Spark solving and how is that benefiting you?

In memory computation makes it really fast.

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

August 8, 2023 Source: G2.com

Suparfast Spark

What do you like best about Spark?

In memory processing is mostly liked thing. Also directly we can use dataframes which makes it very developer friendly. Also streaming part I liked very much...

What do you dislike about Spark?

There is nothing as such in my opinion which can be disliked.

What problems is Spark solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's helping us to do our data analysis on top of streaming data. Also helping in daily schedule batch processing. It increase our productivity and also business performance.

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Kunal S

July 25, 2023 Source: G2.com

Spark review

What do you like best about Spark?

.In memory computation and storage levels

What do you dislike about Spark?

Recommendations to others considering Spark?

GRAPHX and sparkmlib to execute ML jobs in distributed env

What problems is Spark solving and how is that benefiting you?

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

July 25, 2023 Source: G2.com

Best in memory compute engine

What do you like best about Spark?

Earlier we were using mapreduce and just shifted to spark. It's in memory processing makes it super fast.It's data frame API and also spark streaming is best part of spark.

What do you dislike about Spark?

There is no such thing to dislike about spark.

What problems is Spark solving and how is that benefiting you?

Fast processing of huge data using data frame API which uses internal optimisations. This in tern increases our buisness by getting insights of data regularly and quickly.

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Verified User in Wholesale

July 24, 2023 Source: G2.com

Best distributed compute engine

What do you like best about Spark?

Spark's in-memory computations makes it suparfast over traditional Map-Reduce jobs.

What do you dislike about Spark?

Also spark has capacity to not just read from hdfs but also from any storage. Spark streaming is best for streaming applications.

Recommendations to others considering Spark?

Dataframes are also the best part of spark.

What problems is Spark solving and how is that benefiting you?

There is nothing as such to dislike about spark.

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Shanmuka Abhinay P

July 24, 2023 Source: G2.com

Spark is a great tool to work with

What do you like best about Spark?

Spark is a great tool to work with . I used it for monitoring my systems.

What do you dislike about Spark?

Nothing as of now. Will try to work more and provide a great set backs

What problems is Spark solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is monitoring my systems without any other interventions

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