&gt; Built from the ground up for the cloud, Amazon QuickSight&#x27;s Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory, Calculation Engine (&quot;SPICE&quot;) uses a combination of columnar storage, in-memory technologies enabled through the latest hardware innovations, machine code generation, and data compression to allow users to run interactive queries on large datasets and get rapid responses.<p>The description sounds awfully similar to Spark, yet they say it&#x27;s &quot;built from the ground up&quot;, which I assume means &quot;from scratch&quot;.