Apache Spark vs QueryIO comparison

Apache and QueryIO are both solutions in the Hadoop category. Apache is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.6, while QueryIO is ranked #15. Apache holds a 17.8% mindshare in H, compared to QueryIO’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Apache users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of QueryIO users who would recommend it.

Apache Spark

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90% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Apache Spark

Ranking in Hadoop

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Compute Service (4th), Java Frameworks (2nd)

QueryIO

Ranking in Hadoop

15th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Hadoop category, the mindshare of Apache Spark is 17.8%, down from 21.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of QueryIO is 0.4%, down from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Ilya Afanasyev

Senior Software Development Engineer at Yahoo!

Reliable, able to expand, and handle large amounts of data well

We use batch processing. It works well with our formats and file versions. There's a lot of functionality. In our pipeline each hour, we make a copy of data from MongoDB, of the changes from MongoDB to some specific file. Each time pipeline copied all of the data, it would do it each time without changes to all of the tables. Tables have a lot of data, and in the last MongoDB version, there is a possibility to read only changed data. This reduced the cost and configuration of the cluster, and we saved about $150,000. The solution is scalable. It's a stable product.

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Marco Reyes

Manager of Process & Systems / Solutions Architect / BI Developer at HENKEL FRANCE

Stable with good connectivity and good integration capabilities

Data cleansing is not intuitive and user-friendly. When things have errors, you have to hunt them down as opposed to the solution simply showing you intuitively where to find it. I would recommend that they look at that Tableau Prep tool and see how it is pieced together. That's a great data cleansing tool. If Microsoft has something like that, then we wouldn't even have to look at some of the other options. There needs to be some simplification of the user interface. Right now it's too complicated. There isn't a way to put controls on the solution, so anyone can use any part of it, and sometimes novices will go and try to create things, but not know enough about what is official and what is published. It would be ideal if we could segment off certain sections so that not everyone had access to the whole solution. I'd like to see something more of a mapping tool so that you could see how the reports are connected, similar to Tableau Prep and Naim. That would make for a pretty useful diagnostics check. People would be better able to understand the linkage between your datasets. It would be nice if the solution offered some templates. It would make it even more plug and play, and give people a good jumping-off point. After that, they could explore other bells and whistles as they get further into understanding the solution. The solution should work in some virtualization. It would be a good added feature. If this product had those things then I wouldn't need to use other products.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The main feature that we find valuable is that it is very fast."

"The data processing framework is good."

"It provides a scalable machine learning library."

"ETL and streaming capabilities."

"The product’s most valuable features are lazy evaluation and workload distribution."

"Apache Spark is known for its ease of use. Compared to other available data processing frameworks, it is user-friendly."

"AI libraries are the most valuable. They provide extensibility and usability. Spark has a lot of connectors, which is a very important and useful feature for AI. You need to connect a lot of points for AI, and you have to get data from those systems. Connectors are very wide in Spark. With a Spark cluster, you can get fast results, especially for AI."

"I like Apache Spark's flexibility the most. Before, we had one server that would choke up. With the solution, we can easily add more nodes when needed. The machine learning models are also really helpful. We use them to predict energy theft and find infrastructure problems."

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"Anyone who has even a little bit of knowledge of the solution can begin to create things. You don't have to be technical to use the solution."

Cons

"Dynamic DataFrame options are not yet available."

"Stream processing needs to be developed more in Spark. I have used Flink previously. Flink is better than Spark at stream processing."

"The migration of data between different versions could be improved."

"Spark could be improved by adding support for other open-source storage layers than Delta Lake."

"The product could improve the user interface and make it easier for new users."

"Apache Spark's GUI and scalability could be improved."

"We are building our own queries on Spark, and it can be improved in terms of query handling."

"The solution needs to optimize shuffling between workers."

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"There needs to be some simplification of the user interface."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is expensive, considering the setup."

"Spark is an open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs."

"It is an open-source solution, it is free of charge."

"The solution is affordable and there are no additional licensing costs."

"Apache Spark is an expensive solution."

"Since we are using the Apache Spark version, not the data bricks version, it is an Apache license version, the support and resolution of the bug are actually late or delayed. The Apache license is free."

"The tool is an open-source product. If you're using the open-source Apache Spark, no fees are involved at any time. Charges only come into play when using it with other services like Databricks."

"Apache Spark is an open-source solution, and there is no cost involved in deploying the solution on-premises."

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What do you like most about Apache Spark?

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Compared to other solutions like Doc DB, Spark is more costly due to the need for extensive infrastructure. It requires significant investment in infrastructure, which can be expensive. While cloud...

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Overview

Spark provides programmers with an application programming interface centered on a data structure called the resilient distributed dataset (RDD), a read-only multiset of data items distributed over a cluster of machines, that is maintained in a fault-tolerant way. It was developed in response to limitations in the MapReduce cluster computing paradigm, which forces a particular linear dataflowstructure on distributed programs: MapReduce programs read input data from disk, map a function across the data, reduce the results of the map, and store reduction results on disk. Spark's RDDs function as a working set for distributed programs that offers a (deliberately) restricted form of distributed shared memory

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QueryIO is a Hadoop-based SQL and Big Data Analytics solution, used to store, structure, analyze and visualize vast amounts of structured and unstructured Big Data. It is especially well suited to enable users to process unstructured Big Data, give it a structure and support querying and analysis of this Big Data using standard SQL syntax. QueryIO enables you to leverage the vast and mature infrastructure built around SQL and relational databases and utilize it for your Big Data Analytics needs.

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