Apache Spark received the SIGMOD Systems Award this year, given by SIGMOD (the ACM’s data management research organization) to impactful real-world and research systems:
The 2022 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award goes to “Apache Spark”, an innovative, widely-used, open-source, unified data processing system encompassing relational, streaming, and machine-learning workloads.
This is a significant achievement by the whole community in Apache Spark that the whole community earned together.