Apache Spark Due Diligence

Run due diligence on Apache Spark: check compliance and get alerts when suppliers change.

Open Source · spark.apache.org · 5 vendors

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is an American non-profit corporation that provides support and infrastructure for numerous open-source software projects, including Apache Spark. It fosters collaborative software development under the "Apache Way" and offers legal protection to its volunteer contributors. The ASF's mission is to provide software for the public good.

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1 service in catalogue across 1 category; runs on 5 sub-vendors.

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Last updated 2026-07-29 · revision 1

5 direct vendors, 78 subvendors

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Compliance

5 in-scope frameworks identified; showing 3.

Apache License 2.0 — Evidence found

Evidence: https://www.apache.org/licenses/, https://spark.apache.org

SOC 2 (source) — No public evidence

Evidence: https://privacy.apache.org/policies/privacy-policy-public.html, https://spark.apache.org/security.html

GDPR (source) — Evidence found

Evidence: https://privacy.apache.org/policies/privacy-policy-public.html, https://spark.apache.org, https://privacy.apache.org/

Financials

Three-year financials

Financial Resilience Score: 8/10

Databricks, the dominant commercial vendor of Apache Spark, demonstrates strong financial resilience with very high growth (>50% YoY) at multi-billion ARR scale. The company has raised over $4B across multiple funding rounds from top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, T. Rowe Price, Fidelity, Baillie Gifford, Franklin Templeton, and Capital Group, providing substantial cash reserves. It reached positive free cash flow in Q3 FY2024 (calendar Q3 2023) and has been narrowing losses. The company's private-market valuation grew from $38B (2021) to $43B (September 2023) to approximately $62B (late 2024 tender), reflecting strong investor confidence. Its deep enterprise moat via Delta Lake, MLflow, Unity Catalog, and the Mosaic AI acquisition ($1.3B, 2023) positions it well in the Gen-AI stack. However, it is not yet GAAP profitable due to heavy R&D and S&M spend, and faces intense competition from Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, and AWS-native services. The Apache Software Foundation itself, as steward of Spark, has a small budget (~$3-4M annual revenue) but is backed by a diversified sponsor base including AWS, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Huawei, and Tencent, making the project itself resilient to single-vendor collapse.

Key strengths: Very high growth >50% YoY at multi-billion ARR scale, Approaching cash-flow break-even; positive FCF achieved Q3 FY2024, Strong balance sheet with >$4B raised and sizable cash reserves, Deep enterprise moat via Delta Lake, MLflow, Unity Catalog, Mosaic AI, Strategic Mosaic AI acquisition ($1.3B) positions in Gen-AI stack, Diversified sponsor base for ASF including all major hyperscalers

Risk factors: Not yet GAAP profitable, Intense competition with Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, AWS-native services, Customer-concentration and cloud-vendor dependency on AWS/Azure/GCP, IPO would bring public-market scrutiny of unit economics, Competitive pressure on Spark from Snowflake, DuckDB, Polars, Ray, Flink, Committer concentration at Databricks creates vendor influence over Spark roadmap

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