We performed a comparison between Apache Spark and Spot Ocean based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache, Zadara and others in Compute Service."The tool's most valuable feature is its speed and efficiency. It's much faster than other tools and excels in parallel data processing. Unlike tools like Python or JavaScript, which may struggle with parallel processing, it allows us to handle large volumes of data with more power easily."
"Spark helps us reduce startup time for our customers and gives a very high ROI in the medium term."
"One of Apache Spark's most valuable features is that it supports in-memory processing, the execution of jobs compared to traditional tools is very fast."
"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."
"Features include machine learning, real time streaming, and data processing."
"The most crucial feature for us is the streaming capability. It serves as a fundamental aspect that allows us to exert control over our operations."
"I found the solution stable. We haven't had any problems with it."
"Now, when we're tackling sentiment analysis using NLP technologies, we deal with unstructured data—customer chats, feedback on promotions or demos, and even media like images, audio, and video files. For processing such data, we rely on PySpark. Beneath the surface, Spark functions as a compute engine with in-memory processing capabilities, enhancing performance through features like broadcasting and caching. It's become a crucial tool, widely adopted by 90% of companies for a decade or more."
"The solution helps us to manage and scale automatically whenever there is a limit to the increase in the application workflow."
"It should support more programming languages."
"The solution needs to optimize shuffling between workers."
"It needs a new interface and a better way to get some data. In terms of writing our scripts, some processes could be faster."
"Apache Spark is very difficult to use. It would require a data engineer. It is not available for every engineer today because they need to understand the different concepts of Spark, which is very, very difficult and it is not easy to learn."
"In data analysis, you need to take real-time data from different data sources. You need to process this in a subsecond, do the transformation in a subsecond, and all that."
"Apache Spark could improve the connectors that it supports. There are a lot of open-source databases in the market. For example, cloud databases, such as Redshift, Snowflake, and Synapse. Apache Spark should have connectors present to connect to these databases. There are a lot of workarounds required to connect to those databases, but it should have inbuilt connectors."
"The management tools could use improvement. Some of the debugging tools need some work as well. They need to be more descriptive."
"The graphical user interface (UI) could be a bit more clear. It's very hard to figure out the execution logs and understand how long it takes to send everything. If an execution is lost, it's not so easy to understand why or where it went. I have to manually drill down on the data processes which takes a lot of time. Maybe there could be like a metrics monitor, or maybe the whole log analysis could be improved to make it easier to understand and navigate."
"The solution doesn't have support from OCI, and it should start working to onboard OCI."
Apache Spark is ranked 5th in Compute Service with 60 reviews while Spot Ocean is ranked 11th in Compute Service with 1 review. Apache Spark is rated 8.4, while Spot Ocean is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Apache Spark writes "Reliable, able to expand, and handle large amounts of data well". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Spot Ocean writes "Used to manage Kubernetes infrastructure, but it doesn't have support from OCI". Apache Spark is most compared with Spring Boot, AWS Batch, Spark SQL, SAP HANA and Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, whereas Spot Ocean is most compared with Spot Elastigroup and Spot Eco.
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