Apache Spark vs Oracle Application Development Framework comparison

Apache and Oracle are both solutions in the Java Frameworks category. Apache is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.6, while Oracle is ranked #9. Apache holds a 8.1% mindshare in JF, compared to Oracle’s 3.9% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Apache users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Apache Spark and Oracle Application Development Framework based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Java Frameworks solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Apache Spark

Ranking in Java Frameworks

2nd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Hadoop (1st), Compute Service (4th)

Oracle Application Developm...

Ranking in Java Frameworks

9th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Java Frameworks category, the mindshare of Apache Spark is 8.1%, up from 8.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Application Development Framework is 3.9%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Omar Khaled

Data Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

Empowering data consolidation and fast decision-making with efficient big data processing

I can improve the organization's functions by taking less time to make decisions. To make the right decision, you need the right data, and a solution can provide this by hiring talent and employees who can consolidate data from different sources and organize it. Not all solutions can make this data fast enough to be used, except for solutions such as Apache Spark Structured Streaming. To make the right decision, you should have both accurate and fast data. Apache Spark itself is similar to the Python programming language. Python is a language with many libraries for mathematics and machine learning. Apache Spark is the solution, and within it, you have PySpark, which is the API for Apache Spark to write and run Python code. Within it, there are many APIs, including SQL APIs, allowing you to write SQL code within a Python function in Apache Spark. You can also use Apache Spark Structured Streaming and machine learning APIs.

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Asad Ur Rehman

ERP Manager | Implementation Head at Tharsol

Eases the writing of code in Java with JavaBeans; easy to set up

My advice to anyone who intends to use ADF for the first time is that you must make sure that you have powerful enough hardware in order to run everything smoothly, especially when it comes to JDeveloper. If your hardware is adequate, you can get by without a problem in terms of speed, but be advised that it can use a lot of resources. However, even though ADF is a good product with great scalability that has really helped me out in hard times since 2014, I would ultimately recommend that new users look toward Oracle APEX instead of ADF. I would rate Oracle Application Development Framework a nine out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The product’s most valuable feature is the SQL tool. It enables us to create a database and publish it."

"The most valuable feature of Apache Spark is its ease of use."

"I appreciate everything about the solution, not just one or two specific features. The solution is highly stable. I rate it a perfect ten. The solution is highly scalable. I rate it a perfect ten. The initial setup was straightforward. I recommend using the solution. Overall, I rate the solution a perfect ten."

"The most valuable feature of Apache Spark is its flexibility."

"Apache Spark is known for its ease of use. Compared to other available data processing frameworks, it is user-friendly."

"The most valuable feature of Apache Spark is its memory processing because it processes data over RAM rather than disk, which is much more efficient and fast."

"AI libraries are the most valuable. They provide extensibility and usability. Spark has a lot of connectors, which is a very important and useful feature for AI. You need to connect a lot of points for AI, and you have to get data from those systems. Connectors are very wide in Spark. With a Spark cluster, you can get fast results, especially for AI."

"The features we find most valuable are the machine learning, data learning, and Spark Analytics."

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"The power of Oracle ADF is in the business components."

"There are several valuable features. First is the fast deployment. Also the ease of use."

"The single sign-on features applied to Oracle Cloud is a valuable feature. All parts of this application are compatible with single sign-on, where you have a security feature that is very good in Oracle Cloud."

"The most valuable features of this solution are the business components."

"We can create objects that allow us to develop pages and applications very rapidly."

"The most valuable feature of the Oracle Application Development Framework is the rapid development and the security it provides."

"It's database-centric, and it's seemingly easy to use the model–view–controller pattern that's built-in."

"The most valuable feature is the ease of integration with other Oracle products."

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Cons

"Technical expertise from an engineer is required to deploy and run high-tech tools, like Informatica, on Apache Spark, making it an area where improvements are required to make the process easier for users."

"The main concern is the overhead of Java when distributed processing is not necessary."

"The initial setup was not easy."

"Stability in terms of API (things were difficult, when transitioning from RDD to DataFrames, then to DataSet)."

"They could improve the issues related to programming language for the platform."

"It's not easy to install."

"More ML based algorithms should be added to it, to make it algorithmic-rich for developers."

"Include more machine learning algorithms and the ability to handle streaming of data versus micro batch processing."

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"Oracle ADF needs more components and the layout can be improved."

"You need to have Oracle ADF on-premises to build a big project. You need to have a dependable front-end application."

"The performance of this solution needs to be improved because it is very slow."

"Oracle Application Development Framework is set to go out of support over the next three years but they should provide support for the solution for the longer term. Additionally, there needs to be more overall optimization and specifically in webpage rendering. The solution uses a lot of resources, and in order for them to move forward, they would have to create a smaller resource impact."

"The application needs to be more lightweight and the performance improved."

"Lacks tailoring to geographic regional differences and consistent integration with third parties."

"The model layer could be improved for performance because once that part gets bloated, the performance is lacking. So, there is room for performance optimization."

"I use JDeveloper along with ADF and, unfortunately, JDeveloper is a very slow tool. It takes a lot of time to accomplish things with it during both development and deployment. I hope that Oracle will improve JDeveloper to make it run faster."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"On the cloud model can be expensive as it requires substantial resources for implementation, covering on-premises hardware, memory, and licensing."

"Apache Spark is not too cheap. You have to pay for hardware and Cloudera licenses. Of course, there is a solution with open source without Cloudera."

"Apache Spark is an expensive solution."

"Considering the product version used in my company, I feel that the tool is not costly since the product is available for free."

"The product is expensive, considering the setup."

"Apache Spark is an open-source tool."

"I did not pay anything when using the tool on cloud services, but I had to pay on the compute side. The tool is not expensive compared with the benefits it offers. I rate the price as an eight out of ten."

"The solution is affordable and there are no additional licensing costs."

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"The cost of this solution is approximately $47,000 USD per site."

"Oracle ADF is an expensive product. I don't know the actual figures, but our licensing costs for the year 2020, for example, were very high."

"The solution has an annual licensing cost and there are only standard fees. If you want Oracle support this is charged extra on top of the licensing fees."

"We use a lot of Oracle products and in total, we pay about £5 million ($6.1 million USD) per year."

"We have yearly licensing costs."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

26%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Government

11%

Insurance Company

10%

Non Profit

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Apache Spark?

We use Spark to process data from different data sources.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Apache Spark?

Apache Spark is open-source, so it doesn't incur any charges.

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What needs improvement with Apache Spark?

There is complexity when it comes to understanding the whole ecosystem, especially for beginners. I find it quite complex to understand how a Spark job is initiated, the roles of driver nodes, work...

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Oracle ADF

Overview

Spark provides programmers with an application programming interface centered on a data structure called the resilient distributed dataset (RDD), a read-only multiset of data items distributed over a cluster of machines, that is maintained in a fault-tolerant way. It was developed in response to limitations in the MapReduce cluster computing paradigm, which forces a particular linear dataflowstructure on distributed programs: MapReduce programs read input data from disk, map a function across the data, reduce the results of the map, and store reduction results on disk. Spark's RDDs function as a working set for distributed programs that offers a (deliberately) restricted form of distributed shared memory

Apache

Oracle ADF is an end-to-end Java EE framework that simplifies application development by providing out-of-the-box infrastructure services and a visual and declarative development experience. Oracle ADF simplifies Java EE development by minimizing the need to write code that implements the applicationâs infrastructure allowing the developers to focus on the features of the actual application. Oracle ADF provides these infrastructure implementations as part of the framework. It also implements the Model-View-Controller design pattern and offers an integrated solution that covers all the layers of the architecture integrated with the Oracle SOA and WebCenter Portal frameworks.

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Sample Customers

NASA JPL, UC Berkeley AMPLab, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!, UC Santa Cruz, TripAdvisor, Taboola, Agile Lab, Art.com, Baidu, Alibaba Taobao, EURECOM, Hitachi Solutions

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