This document discusses Spark, an open-source cluster computing framework. It provides a brief history of Spark, describing how it generalized MapReduce to support more types of applications. Spark allows for batch, interactive, and real-time processing within a single framework using Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs) and a logical plan represented as a directed acyclic graph (DAG). The document also discusses how Spark can be used for applications like machine learning via MLlib, graph processing with GraphX, and streaming data with Spark Streaming.