# Apache Spark

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/apache-spark/  
**Website:** https://spark.apache.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

Apache Spark is a unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. It provides high-level APIs in Java, Scala, Python, and R, and an optimized engine that supports general execution graphs. Spark offers a comprehensive suite of APIs for batch processing, SQL queries, streaming analytics, machine learning, and graph computation, governed by the Apache Software Foundation.

## Kin Score — 32.6 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 32.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 35.7 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 45.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.6 |
| Access Clarity | 28.6 |

## Agent readiness — 24.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (6)

- **Apache Spark SQL API** — Spark module for structured data processing with DataFrame and Dataset APIs. Provides a SQL interface and supports various data sources including Parquet, ORC, JSON, CSV, JDBC, ...
- **Apache Spark Streaming API** — Scalable, high-throughput, fault-tolerant stream processing of live data streams. Supports Structured Streaming (the newer DStream-based API) with exactly-once semantics, contin...
- **Apache Spark MLlib API** — Spark's scalable machine learning library consisting of common learning algorithms and utilities, including classification, regression, clustering, collaborative filtering, dime...
- **Apache Spark GraphX API** — Spark API for graphs and graph-parallel computation with a collection of graph algorithms and builders, including PageRank, Connected Components, Triangle Counting, and shortest...
- **Apache Spark Applications API** — The Applications API from Apache Spark — 25 operation(s) for applications.
- **Apache Spark Version API** — The Version API from Apache Spark — 1 operation(s) for version.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Apache Spark Agentic Access** — 26 operations

## Security (2)

- **Apache Spark Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Apache Spark Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Apache Spark Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Large-Scale ETL** — Extract, transform, and load petabytes of data across distributed clusters.
- **Real-Time Analytics** — Streaming analytics on live event data with sub-second latency.
- **Machine Learning Pipelines** — Distributed ML training and feature engineering at scale with MLlib.
- **Data Lake Processing** — Query and transform data stored in cloud object stores and HDFS.
- **Interactive SQL Analytics** — Interactive SQL queries on structured and semi-structured data at scale.

## Tags

Analytics, Big Data, Distributed Computing, Machine-Learning, Open-Source, Streaming

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/apache-spark/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.