Launched in the year 2009, Apache Spark is an open-source unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. With more than 28k GitHub stars, this analytics engine can be said as one of the most active open-sourced big data projects and is popular for its various intuitive features. Some of its features include ease of writing applications quickly in various languages, such as Java, Scala, Python, R, and SQL and accessibility in diverse data sources.

Below here is a compilation of the top eight alternatives to Apache Spark.

• Apache Hadoop
• Google BigQuery
• Apache Storm
• Apache Flink
• Lumify
• Apache Sqoop
• Elasticsearch
• Presto

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