Apache Spark

This is a benchmark of Apache Spark with its PySpark interface. Apache Spark is an open-source unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing and dealing with big data. This test profile benchmars the Apache Spark in a single-system configuration using spark-submit. The test makes use of DIYBigData's pyspark-benchmark (https://github.com/DIYBigData/pyspark-benchmark/) for generating of test data and various Apache Spark operations.

To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark spark.

Performance Metrics

Apache Spark 3.3

Row Count: 1000000 - Partitions: 100 - Calculate Pi Benchmark

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 434 public results since 4 August 2022 with the latest data as of 14 April 2024.

Below is an overview of the generalized performance for components where there is sufficient statistically significant data based upon user-uploaded results. It is important to keep in mind particularly in the Linux/open-source space there can be vastly different OS configurations, with this overview intended to offer just general guidance as to the performance expectations.

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Apache Spark 3.3 - Row Count: 1000000 - Partitions: 100 - Calculate Pi Benchmark) has an average run-time of 16 minutes. By default this test profile is set to run at least 3 times but may increase if the standard deviation exceeds pre-defined defaults or other calculations deem additional runs necessary for greater statistical accuracy of the result.

Based on public OpenBenchmarking.org results, the selected test / test configuration has an average standard deviation of 0.1%.

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Yes, based on the automated analysis of the collected public benchmark data, this test / test settings does generally scale well with increasing CPU core counts. Data based on publicly available results for this test / test settings, separated by vendor, result divided by the reference CPU clock speed, grouped by matching physical CPU core count, and normalized against the smallest core count tested from each vendor for each CPU having a sufficient number of test samples and statistically significant data.

Tested CPU Architectures

This benchmark has been successfully tested on the below mentioned architectures. The CPU architectures listed is where successful OpenBenchmarking.org result uploads occurred, namely for helping to determine if a given test is compatible with various alternative CPU architectures.

Recent Test Results