This document provides an overview of Spark, a framework for simplifying big data analytics. It discusses the types of data used in big data, defines big data and big data analytics. It then describes Hadoop's traditional approach using HDFS for storage and MapReduce for processing. The document introduces Spark as a faster alternative to Hadoop and describes Spark's ecosystem including Spark SQL, Spark Streaming, MLib, and GraphX. It compares Hadoop and Spark and concludes that the choice depends on the specific use case.