This document discusses Apache Spark, an open-source cluster computing framework. It provides an overview of Spark, including its main concepts like RDDs (Resilient Distributed Datasets) and transformations. Spark is presented as a faster alternative to Hadoop for iterative jobs and machine learning through its ability to keep data in-memory. Example code is shown for Spark's programming model in Scala and Python. The document concludes that Spark offers a rich API to make data analytics fast, achieving speedups of up to 100x over Hadoop in real applications.