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    Apache Airflow

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AApache Airflow is an open source tool that can be used to programmatically author, schedule and monitor data pipelines using Python and SQL.N/A

    Apache Spark

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AApache Spark is an open-source, distributed cluster-computing framework designed for large-scale data processing, batch transformations, real-time Streaming Analytics, and machine learning workloads. The platform executes distributed memory-centric computations across heterogeneous storage layers using unified APIs in Python, Scala, Java, SQL, and R.N/A
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    Apache AirflowApache Spark
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    Apache
    Chose Apache Airflow
    Apache Airflow is suited for a much wider set of use cases compared to Databricks. You can run it anywhere, and there is also no vendor lock-in. With Airflow, we can utilize almost any compute engine. Same thing we want to do with Databricks. There might be some level of …
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    Chose Apache Airflow
    Overall using Apache Airflow is easy to use compare than other other tools available in the market, It is easy to integrate in apache airflow and the workflow can be monitored and scheduling can be done easily using apache airflow, recommend this tool for Automating the data …
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    Apache
    Chose Apache Spark
    Apache Spark is a fast-processing in-memory computing framework. It is 10 times faster than Apache Hadoop. Earlier we were using Apache Hadoop for processing data on the disk but now we are shifted to Apache Spark because of its in-memory computation capability. Also in SAP …
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    Features
    Apache AirflowApache Spark
    Workload Automation
    Comparison of Workload Automation features of Apache Airflow and Apache Spark
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    Apache Airflow
    8.5
    12 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Apache Spark
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    Multi-platform scheduling9.112 Ratings00 Ratings
    Central monitoring8.712 Ratings00 Ratings
    Logging8.312 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts and notifications9.212 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analysis and visualization6.112 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application integration9.412 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Testimonials
    Apache AirflowApache Spark
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Apache
    Airflow is well-suited for data engineering pipelines, creating scheduled workflows, and working with various data sources. You can implement almost any kind of DAG for any use case using the different operators or enforce your operator using the Python operator with ease. The MLOps feature of Airflow can be enhanced to match MLFlow-like features, making Airflow the go-to solution for all workloads, from data science to data engineering.
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    Apache
    Well suited: To most of the local run of datasets and non-prod systems - scalability is not a problem at all. Including data from multiple types of data sources is an added advantage. MLlib is a decently nice built-in library that can be used for most of the ML tasks. Less appropriate: We had to work on a RecSys where the music dataset that we used was around 300+Gb in size. We faced memory-based issues. Few times we also got memory errors. Also the MLlib library does not have support for advanced analytics and deep-learning frameworks support. Understanding the internals of the working of Apache Spark for beginners is highly not possible.
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    Pros
    Apache
    • Apache Airflow is one of the best Orchestration platforms and a go-to scheduler for teams building a data platform or pipelines.
    • Apache Airflow supports multiple operators, such as the Databricks, Spark, and Python operators. All of these provide us with functionality to implement any business logic.
    • Apache Airflow is highly scalable, and we can run a large number of DAGs with ease. It provided HA and replication for workers. Maintaining airflow deployments is very easy, even for smaller teams, and we also get lots of metrics for observability.
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    Apache
    • Rich APIs for data transformation making for very each to transform and prepare data in a distributed environment without worrying about memory issues
    • Faster in execution times compare to Hadoop and PIG Latin
    • Easy SQL interface to the same data set for people who are comfortable to explore data in a declarative manner
    • Interoperability between SQL and Scala / Python style of munging data
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    Cons
    Apache
    • UI/Dashboard can be updated to be customisable, and jobs summary in groups of errors/failures/success, instead of each job, so that a summary of errors can be used as a starting point for reviewing them.
    • Navigation - It's a bit dated. Could do with more modern web navigation UX. i.e. sidebars navigation instead of browser back/forward.
    • Again core functional reorg in terms of UX. Navigation can be improved for core functions as well, instead of discovery.
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    Apache
    • Memory management. Very weak on that.
    • PySpark not as robust as scala with spark.
    • spark master HA is needed. Not as HA as it should be.
    • Locality should not be a necessity, but does help improvement. But would prefer no locality
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    Apache
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    Apache
    Capacity of computing data in cluster and fast speed.
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    Usability
    Apache
    For its capability to connect with multicloud environments. Access Control management is something that we don't get in all the schedulers and orchestrators. But although it provides so many flexibility and options to due to python , some level of knowledge of python is needed to be able to build workflows.
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    Apache
    If the team looking to use Apache Spark is not used to debug and tweak settings for jobs to ensure maximum optimizations, it can be frustrating. However, the documentation and the support of the community on the internet can help resolve most issues. Moreover, it is highly configurable and it integrates with different tools (eg: it can be used by dbt core), which increase the scenarios where it can be used
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    Support Rating
    Apache
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    Apache
    1. It integrates very well with scala or python. 2. It's very easy to understand SQL interoperability. 3. Apache is way faster than the other competitive technologies. 4. The support from the Apache community is very huge for Spark. 5. Execution times are faster as compared to others. 6. There are a large number of forums available for Apache Spark. 7. The code availability for Apache Spark is simpler and easy to gain access to. 8. Many organizations use Apache Spark, so many solutions are available for existing applications.
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    Apache
    Multiple DAGs can be orchestrated simultaneously at varying times, and runs can be reproduced or replicated with relative ease. Overall, utilizing Apache Airflow is easier to use than other solutions now on the market. It is simple to integrate in Apache Airflow, and the workflow can be monitored and scheduling can be done quickly using Apache Airflow. We advocate using this tool for automating the data pipeline or process.
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    Apache
    Spark in comparison to similar technologies ends up being a one stop shop. You can achieve so much with this one framework instead of having to stitch and weave multiple technologies from the Hadoop stack, all while getting incredibility performance, minimal boilerplate, and getting the ability to write your application in the language of your choosing.
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    Return on Investment
    Apache
    • Impact Depends on number of workflows. If there are lot of workflows then it has a better usecase as the implementation is justified as it needs resources , dedicated VMs, Database that has a cost
    • Donot use it if you have very less usecases
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    Apache
    • Business leaders are able to take data driven decisions
    • Business users are able access to data in near real time now . Before using spark, they had to wait for at least 24 hours for data to be available
    • Business is able come up with new product ideas
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