This document is a presentation on Apache Spark that compares its performance to MapReduce. It discusses how Spark is faster than MapReduce, provides code examples of performing word counts in both Spark and MapReduce, and explains features that make Spark suitable for big data analytics such as simplifying data analysis, providing built-in machine learning and graph libraries, and speaking multiple languages. It also lists many large companies that use Spark for applications like recommendations, business intelligence, and fraud detection.