A Brief History: Spark Developed in 2009 at Uc berkeley amPlab then open sourced in 2010, Spark has since become one of the largest oss communities in big data with over 200 contributors in 50+ organiZations Unlike the various specialized systems, Sparks goal was to generalize mapreduce to support new apps within same engine Q Lightning-fast cluster computingA Brief History: Spark Developed in 2009 at UC Berkeley AMPLab, then open sourced in 2010, Spark has since become one of the largest OSS communities in big data, with over 200 contributors in 50+ organizations Unlike the various specialized systems, Spark’s goal was to generalize MapReduce to support new apps within same engine Lightning-fast cluster computing