Spark is an open source framework from Apache Software Foundation for distributed processing of large amounts of data on clusters of computers, designed for use in Big Data environments, and created to enhance the capabilities of its predecessor MapReduce.

Spark inherits the scalability and fault tolerance capabilities of MapReduce, but far surpasses it in terms of processing speed, ease of use and analytical capabilities...

The Hadoop software library is a framework that enables distributed processing of large datasets using clusters of computers or servers, using simple programming models.

Hadoop is designed to scale easily from single server systems to thousands of machines...

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) is a managed relational database service that simplifies the setup, operation, and scaling of databases in the cloud..