Powered By Spark

This page tracks the users of Spark. To add yourself to the list, please email user@spark.apache.org with your organization name, URL, a list of which Spark components you are using, and a short description of your use case.

Companies & Organizations

• UC Berkeley AMPLab - Big data research lab that initially launched Spark
  • We're building a variety of open source projects on Spark, including Shark, MLbase, and Spark Streaming, and developing new distributed systems techniques that improve the engine
  • We have both graduate students and a team of professional software engineers working on the stack
• 4Quant
• Adatao, Inc. - Data Intelligence for All
  • Visual, Real-Time, Predictive Analytics on Spark+Hadoop, with built-in support for R, Python, SQL, and Natural Language.
  • Team of ex-Googlers & Yahoos with large-scale infrastructure experience (including both flavors of MapReduce at Google & Yahoo) & PhD's in ML/Data Mining
  • Determined that Spark, among the many alternatives, answered the right problem statements with the right design
• Agile Labs
  • enhancing big data. 360 customer view, log analysis, bi
• Alibaba Taobao
  • We built one of the world's first Spark on YARN production clusters.
  • See our blog posts (in Chinese) about Spark at Taobao: http://rdc.taobao.org/?tag=spark
• Alpine Data Labs
• Amazon
• Amrita Center for Cyber Security Systems and Networks
• Art.com
  • Trending analytics and personalization
• AsiaInfo
  
  • We are using Spark Core, Streaming, MLlib and Graphx. We leverage Spark and Hadoop ecosystem to build cost effective data center solution for our customer in teleco industry as well as other industrial sectors.
• Atigeo – integrated Spark in xPatterns, our big data analytics platform, as a replacement for Hadoop MR
• Autodesk
• Baidu
• Bakdata – using Spark (and Shark) to perform interactive exploration of large datasets
• Bizo
  • Check out our talk on Spark at Bizo at Spark user meetup
• Celtra
• ClearStory Data – ClearStory's platform and integrated Data Intelligence application leverages Spark to speed analysis across internal and external data sources, driving holistic and actionable insights.
• Conviva – Experience Live
  • See our talk at AmpCamp on how we are using Spark to provide real time video optimization
• Credit Karma
  • We create personalized experiences using Spark. 
• Databricks
  • Formed by the creators of Apache Spark and Shark, Databricks is working to greatly expand these open source projects and transform big data analysis in the process. We're deeply committed to keeping all work on these systems open source.
  • Providing support for Apache Spark in partnership with Cloudera, MapR, and others, as well as the Databricks Cloud hosted service.
• Dianping.com
• Digby
• Drawbridge
• eBay Inc.
  
  • Using Spark core for log transaction aggregation and analytics
• EURECOM
• Exabeam
• Faimdata
  • Build eCommerce and data intelligence solutions to the retail industry on top of Spark/Shark/Spark Streaming
• Falkonry
• Freeman Lab at HHMI
  • We are using Spark for analyzing and visualizing patterns in large-scale recordings of brain activity in real time
• Fundacion CTIC
• GraphFlow, Inc.
• Groupon
• Guavus
  • stream processing of network machine data
    
• Hitachi Solutions
• The Hive
• IBM Almaden
• InfoObjects
  • Award winning Big Data consulting company with focus on Spark and Hadoop
• Istanbul Sehir University
• Kenshoo
  • digital marketing solutions and predictive media optimization
    
• Kelkoo
  • Using Spark Core, SQL, and Streaming. Product recommendations, BI & analytics, real-time malicious activity filtering, and data mining.
• Knoldus Software LLC
• Magine TV
• MediaCrossing – Digital Media Trading Experts in the New York and Boston areas
  • We are using Spark as a drop-in replacement for Hadoop Map/Reduce to get the right answer to our queries in a much shorter amount of time.
• NASA JPL - Deep Space Network 
• Netease
• NFLabs
• Nokia Solutions and Networks
• NTT DATA
• Nube Technologies

  • Nube provides solutions for data curation at scale helping customer targetting, accurate inventory and efficient analysis.

• Ooyala, Inc. – Powering personalized video experiences across all screens
  • See our blog post on how we use Spark for Fast Queries
  • See our presentation on Cassandra, Spark, and Shark
• Opentable
  • Using Apache Spark for log processing and ETL. The data obtained feeds the recommender system powered by Spark MLLIB Matrix Factorization. We are evaluating the use of Spark Streaming for real-time analytics.
• Peerialism
• PlanBMedia
• Premise
• Quantifind
• Real Impact Analytics
  • Building large scale analytics platforms for telecoms operators
    
• RocketFuel
• RONDHUIT
  • Machine Learning with Apache Mahout & Spark http://www.rondhuit.com/services/training/mahout-ML.html
• Sailthru
  • Uses Spark to build predictive models and recommendation systems for marketing automation and personalization.
• Samsung Research America
• Shazam Entertainment
  
  • Using Spark core and Spark Streaming. Use Spark on EC2 as a replacement for EMR workflows.
• Shopify
• Simba Technologies
  • BI/reporting/ETL for Spark and beyond.
    
• Sinnia
• SK Telecom
  • SK Telecom analyses mobile usage patterns of customer with Spark and Shark.
    
• Socialmetrix
• Sohu
• Stratio
  • Offers an open-source Big Data platform centered around Apache Spark.
• Taboola – Powering "Content You May Like" around the web
• Techbase
• Tencent
• Tetra Concepts
• TrendMicro
• truedash

  • Automatic pulling of all your data in to Spark for enterprise visualisation, predictive analytics and data exploration at a low cost.

• TruEffect Inc
• Tuplejump
• UC Santa Cruz
• University of Missouri Data Analytics & Discover Lab
• VideoAmp
  • Intelligent video ads for online and television viewing audiences.     
• Vistar Media

  • Location technology company enabling brands to reach on-the-go consumers

• Yahoo!
• Yandex
  • Using Spark in Yandex Islands, to process islands identified from a search robot

Software Projects

• Shark - Hive and SQL on top of Spark
• MLbase - Machine Learning research project on top of Spark
• BlinkDB - a massively parallel, approximate query engine built on top of Shark and Spark
• GraphX - a graph processing & analytics framework on top of Spark (GraphX has been merged into Spark 0.9)
• Apache Mesos - Cluster management system that supports running Spark
• Tachyon - In memory storage system that supports running Spark
• Apache MRQL - A query processing and optimization system for large-scale, distributed data analysis, built on top of Apache Hadoop, Hama, and Spark
• OpenDL - A deep learning algorithm library based on Spark framework. Just kick off.
• SparkR - R frontend for Spark
• Spark Job Server - REST interface for managing and submitting Spark jobs on the same cluster (see blog post for details)