Apache Spark is a cross-platform framework, which can be deployed on Linux, Windows, and a Mac Machine as long as we have Java installed on the machine. In this section, we will look at how to install Apache Spark.

First, let's look at the pre-requisites that must be available on the machine:

• Java 8+ (mandatory as all Spark software runs as JVM processes)
• Python 3.4+ (optional and used only when you want to use PySpark)
• R 3.1+ (optional and used only when you want to use SparkR)
• Scala 2.11+ (optional and used only to write programs for Spark)

Spark can be deployed in three primary deployment modes, which we will look at:

• Spark standalone
• Spark on YARN
• Spark on Mesos