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Apache Spark vs Spring Boot comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 12, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Apache Spark
Ranking in Java Frameworks
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
65
Ranking in other categories
Hadoop (1st), Compute Service (4th)
Spring Boot
Ranking in Java Frameworks
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
38
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Java Frameworks category, the mindshare of Apache Spark is 5.5%, down from 7.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spring Boot is 41.6%, down from 43.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Q&A Highlights

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Aug 28, 2023
 

Featured Reviews

Ilya Afanasyev - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
RajuGottupalli - PeerSpot reviewer
Minimizes a lot of coding, improves the time to market, and is easily deployable and configurable
Spring Boot is a bounded framework. The services we develop are purely synchronous services, so there's a blocking and waiting state. This is a big problem in microservices. To avoid this problem, we have to make the service a reactive session. It has to be reactive to a particular load, particular condition, or based on the number of requests hitting the particular service. All these factors make the service a reactor. There's another module in which Spring Boot provides spring reflex. This module enables the reactiveness of the service, meaning that it eliminates the blocking and waiting state. For example, if you're sending a get operation or a post operation, there won't be any waiting for it to actually hit that particular network to get the data from another service. It continuously flows the request, and there is a zero waiting pack. Vert.x is another good framework where there are similar features or similar benefits with having a reactive session. Spring Boot is a license resource, so it's a framework where we can customize our solution or a particular requirement to build a good solution using Spring Boot. But it's an opinionated framework, meaning that it's completely bounded. You have only one direction to find a solution, whereas Vert.x is an unopinionated framework. Unopinionated is a kind of a toolkit where you can have more optimization and a more flexible solution, which is suitable to your requirements. In Spring Boot, the opportunities are limited. With Vert.x and other programming tools, we have multiple options to explore the solution in a different way and achieve a nonfunctional requirement of thousands transactions in a second. Spring Boot might not support this kind of non-functional requirement. Vert.X is a very good solution to solve critical NFRs for a particular application.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is highly scalable, allowing you to efficiently work with extensive datasets that might be problematic to handle using traditional tools that are memory-constrained."
"I found the solution stable. We haven't had any problems with it."
"The product’s most valuable features are lazy evaluation and workload distribution."
"The solution is scalable."
"Apache Spark provides a very high-quality implementation of distributed data processing."
"We use it for ETL purposes as well as for implementing the full transformation pipelines."
"Spark is used for transformations from large volumes of data, and it is usefully distributed."
"Spark can handle small to huge data and is suitable for any size of company."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...The initial setup was not complex and was a simple process."
"The solution reduces our development time."
"The platform is easy for developers to download."
"The configuration setup in Spring Boot is pretty simplified compared to Hibernate ORM."
"It gives you confidence in a readily available platform."
"The most valuable features of Spring Boot include being able to check all the logs and doing health checks for applications. We can also do monitoring more quickly, and use Spring Boot for production support, so when production goes up or down, we can bring up the application very quickly through Spring Boot."
"The community surrounding Spring Boot is really good. If you face any issue with Spring Boot, you will get the answer from the community."
"The simplicity is excellent."
 

Cons

"This solution currently cannot support or distribute neural network related models, or deep learning related algorithms. We would like this functionality to be developed."
"I would like to see integration with data science platforms to optimize the processing capability for these tasks."
"It requires overcoming a significant learning curve due to its robust and feature-rich nature."
"Apache Spark's GUI and scalability could be improved."
"Include more machine learning algorithms and the ability to handle streaming of data versus micro batch processing."
"At times during the deployment process, the tool goes down, making it look less robust. To take care of the issues in the deployment process, users need to do manual interventions occasionally."
"The solution’s integration with other platforms should be improved."
"There could be enhancements in optimization techniques, as there are some limitations in this area that could be addressed to further refine Spark's performance."
"If you want to create large microservices applications, you need to connect several applications and services to each other. It is very complicated, and Spring Boot does not have an integrated solution for it."
"They should include tutorial videos for learning new features."
"Spring Boot can improve the dependency tree that we use for libraries. It would be helpful if it was less complex."
"Having to restart the application to reload properties."
"It needs more applicable control for large-scale application development."
"Spring Boot's cost could be cheaper."
"Spring Boot is okay right now, but my team is looking for some integration where you can make a call to the JMS messaging service and other types of third-party integrations. If the integration with Spring Boot is improved, that would make the tool better. What I'd like to see in the next release of Spring Boot is its integration or tie-up with messaging servers and third-party EFPs, as that would make it very good and more competitive versus other new solutions in the market."
"The security could be simplified."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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."
"Apache Spark is an expensive solution."
"It is an open-source platform. We do not pay for its subscription."
"It is quite expensive. In fact, it accounts for almost 50% of the cost of our entire project."
"Apache Spark is not too cheap. You have to pay for hardware and Cloudera licenses. Of course, there is a solution with open source without Cloudera."
"The product is expensive, considering the setup."
"Spark is an open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs."
"This solution is free unless you apply for support."
"It's open-source software, so it's free. It's a community license."
"This is an open-source product."
"The solution is free."
"Spring Boot is an open source solution, it is free to use."
"Spring Boot is open source. It's a free tool and free framework."
"I use the free version of Spring Boot."
"Spring Boot is an open-source solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
28%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
5%
Financial Services Firm
28%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Apache Spark?
We use Spark to process data from different data sources.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Apache Spark?
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What needs improvement with Apache Spark?
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What do you like most about Spring Boot?
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