Spark is an open source big data processing framework, which is a software tool, according to a query on Chifeng Education. It is maintained by the Apache Software Foundation and provides APIs in multiple programming languages and rich libraries for developing big data applications.

Spark provides a distributed computing engine that can handle computational tasks on large-scale data sets. It is highly scalable and fault-tolerant, and can run on distributed clusters and utilize compute and storage resources in the cluster for high-performance big data processing.Spark also supports a wide range of data processing tasks, including batch processing, interactive querying, machine learning, and streaming processing.