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Yes, Apache Spark can run without Hadoop, standalone, or in the cloud. Spark doesn’t need a Hadoop cluster to work. Spark can read and then process data from other file systems as well. HDFS is just one of the file systems that Spark supports.
Spark does not have any storage layer, so it relies on one of the distributed storage systems for distributed computing like HDFS, Cassandra etc.
However, there are a lot of advantages to running Spark on top of Hadoop (HDFS (for storage) + YARN (resource manager)), but it’s not the mandatory requirement. Spark is a meant for distributed computing. In this case, the data is distributed across the computers and Hadoop’s distributed file system HDFS is used to store data that does not fit in memory.
One more reason for using Hadoop with Spark is they both are open source and both can integrate with each other rather easily as compared to other data storage system.
For more details, please refer:
Apache Spark Compatibility with Hadoop
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