To combat low efficiency of Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm on solving combinatorial problem, a parallel ABC optimization algorithm based on Spark was presented. Firstly, the bee colony was divided into subgroups among which broadcast was used to transmit data, and then was constructed as a resilient distributed dataset. Secondly, a series of transformation operators were used to achieve the parallelization of the solution search. Finally, gravitational mass calculation was used to replace the roulette probability selection and reduce the time complexity. The simulation results in solving the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) prove the feasibility of the proposed parallel algorithm. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm provides a 3.24x speedup over the standard ABC algorithm and its convergence speed is increased by about 10% compared with the unimproved parallel ABC algorithm. It has significant advantages in solving high dimensional problems.