10 alternatives to spark

apache/spark — Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing (44,454 stars, Apache-2.0, integration, infra, files).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 3,000 licence-cleared components from apache/spark itself.

The alternatives in detail

• delta-io/delta
  An open-source storage framework that enables building a Lakehouse architecture with compute engines including Spark, PrestoDB, Flink, Trino, and Hive and APIs
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 9,072 stars · 1,124 components · search them
• microsoft/synapseml
  Simple and Distributed Machine Learning Python Library porting ML algorithms for Spark
  score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 5,254 stars · 484 components · search them
• lakehq/sail
  Drop-in Apache Spark replacement written in Rust, unifying batch processing, stream processing, and compute-intensive AI workloads.
  score 4.6/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 3,491 stars · 1,321 components · search them
• kubeflow/mcp-apache-spark-history-server
  MCP Server and CLI for Apache Spark History Server. Debug Spark applications from AI agents, scripts, or the terminal.
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 206 stars · 41 components · search them
• spark-jobserver/spark-jobserver
  REST job server for Apache Spark
  score 4.6/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 2,833 stars · 148 components · search them
• redislabs/spark-redis
  A connector for Spark that allows reading and writing to/from Redis cluster
  score 4.7/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 944 stars · 27 components · search them
• kubeflow/spark-operator
  Kubernetes operator for managing the lifecycle of Apache Spark applications on Kubernetes.
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 3,158 stars · 106 components · search them
• paypal/gimel
  Big Data Processing Framework - Unified Data API or SQL on Any Storage
  score 4.5/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 254 stars · 476 components · search them
• yahoo/cmak
  CMAK is a tool for managing Apache Kafka clusters
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 11,918 stars · 78 components · search them
• scalikejdbc/scalikejdbc
  A tidy SQL-based DB access library for Scala developers. This library naturally wraps JDBC APIs and provides you easy-to-use APIs.
  score 8.9/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,280 stars · 143 components · search them

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