Can I use Spark without Hadoop for development environment?

Yes you can install Spark without Hadoop. Go through Spark official documentation :http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/spark-standalone.html

Rough steps :

  1. Download precomplied spark or download spark source and build locally
  2. extract TAR
  3. Set required environment variable
  4. Run start script .

Spark(without Hadoop) - Available on Spark Download page URL : https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/spark/spark-2.2.0/spark-2.2.0-bin-hadoop2.7.tgz

If this url do not work then try to get it from Spark download page