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Apache Spark vs Spot comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 8, 2025

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Apache Spark
Ranking in Compute Service
5th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
66
Ranking in other categories
Hadoop (1st), Java Frameworks (2nd)
Spot
Ranking in Compute Service
11th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (31st), Server Virtualization Software (14th), Cloud Operations Analytics (5th), Cloud Analytics (3rd), Containers as a Service (CaaS) (8th), Cloud Cost Management (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Compute Service category, the mindshare of Apache Spark is 11.3%, up from 10.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spot is 1.2%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Compute Service
 

Featured Reviews

Ilya Afanasyev - PeerSpot reviewer
Reliable, able to expand, and handle large amounts of data well
We use batch processing. It works well with our formats and file versions. There's a lot of functionality. In our pipeline each hour, we make a copy of data from MongoDB, of the changes from MongoDB to some specific file. Each time pipeline copied all of the data, it would do it each time without changes to all of the tables. Tables have a lot of data, and in the last MongoDB version, there is a possibility to read only changed data. This reduced the cost and configuration of the cluster, and we saved about $150,000. The solution is scalable. It's a stable product.
Manpreet_Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Used to manage Kubernetes infrastructure, but it doesn't have support from OCI
Spot Ocean is deployed on the cloud in our organization. I would recommend the solution to other users. You need to have an experience with Kubernetes, or else this product is of no use. It is not difficult to learn to use Spot Ocean. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Provides a lot of good documentation compared to other solutions."
"ETL and streaming capabilities."
"The product's deployment phase is easy."
"I like that it can handle multiple tasks parallelly. I also like the automation feature. JavaScript also helps with the parallel streaming of the library."
"The solution is very stable."
"It is highly scalable, allowing you to efficiently work with extensive datasets that might be problematic to handle using traditional tools that are memory-constrained."
"DataFrame: Spark SQL gives the leverage to create applications more easily and with less coding effort."
"There's a lot of functionality."
"The solution offers both block access and file access, making it a nice solution for customers."
"The solution helps us to manage and scale automatically whenever there is a limit to the increase in the application workflow."
 

Cons

"More ML based algorithms should be added to it, to make it algorithmic-rich for developers."
"If you have a Spark session in the background, sometimes it's very hard to kill these sessions because of D allocation."
"Apache Spark lacks geospatial data."
"The solution’s integration with other platforms should be improved."
"Apache Spark can improve the use case scenarios from the website. There is not any information on how you can use the solution across the relational databases toward multiple databases."
"The solution needs to optimize shuffling between workers."
"There were some problems related to the product's compatibility with a few Python libraries."
"Apache Spark should add some resource management improvements to the algorithms."
"There are no particular areas for improvement I can identify."
"The solution doesn't have support from OCI, and it should start working to onboard OCI."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Spark is an open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs."
"Apache Spark is not too cheap. You have to pay for hardware and Cloudera licenses. Of course, there is a solution with open source without Cloudera."
"Since we are using the Apache Spark version, not the data bricks version, it is an Apache license version, the support and resolution of the bug are actually late or delayed. The Apache license is free."
"I did not pay anything when using the tool on cloud services, but I had to pay on the compute side. The tool is not expensive compared with the benefits it offers. I rate the price as an eight out of ten."
"Apache Spark is an expensive solution."
"Apache Spark is an open-source tool."
"The solution is affordable and there are no additional licensing costs."
"The product is expensive, considering the setup."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
27%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Manufacturing Company
25%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Real Estate/Law Firm
6%
 

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Apache Spark?
We use Spark to process data from different data sources.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Apache Spark?
Apache Spark is open-source, so it doesn't incur any charges.
What needs improvement with Apache Spark?
There is complexity when it comes to understanding the whole ecosystem, especially for beginners. I find it quite complex to understand how a Spark job is initiated, the roles of driver nodes, work...
What do you like most about Spot Ocean?
The solution helps us to manage and scale automatically whenever there is a limit to the increase in the application workflow.
What needs improvement with Spot Ocean?
There are no particular areas for improvement I can identify.
What is your primary use case for Spot Ocean?
Spot by NetApp is primarily used for backup and also for Fiservware.
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

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Spot Ocean, Spot Elastigroup, Spot Eco
 

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Sample Customers

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