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Apache Spark
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<p>Apache Spark is an <a href="/facts/Open-source_software/HzTaB8E9">open-source</a> unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. Spark provides an <a href="/facts/Application_programming_interface/GMlN4vUr">interface</a> for programming clusters with implicit <a href="/facts/Data_parallelism/SkYoL91S">data parallelism</a> and <a href="/facts/Fault_tolerance/rasrYlJk">fault tolerance</a>. Originally developed at the <a href="/facts/UC_Berkeley/MXVEjklr">University of California, Berkeley</a>'s <a href="/facts/AMPLab/jtCkfhY6">AMPLab</a> starting in 2009, in 2013, the Spark <a href="/facts/Codebase/MT0CJ4oD">codebase</a> was donated to the <a href="/facts/Apache_Software_Foundation/Xl9Tt9lE">Apache Software Foundation</a>, which has maintained it since. </p>