The popular benchmarks for testing the performance of Apache Spark are:
- Spark TC/ spark-bench
- A Big Data Benchmark Suite
- Intel-Hadoop/HiBench
- ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
If you are a newbie in the Big Data domain, then check out the Spark certification course, from Intellipaat. And if you want to get started in Spark, check out the Apache Spark tutorial. And if you wish to have a visual aid for better understanding, then take a look at our YouTube video on Spark course from domain experts.