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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Astro by Astronomer

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AFor data teams looking to increase the availability of trusted data, Astronomer provides Astro, a data orchestration platform, powered by Airflow. Astro enables data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts to build, run, and observe pipelines-as-code. Astronomer is the driving force behind Apache Airflow™, the de facto standard for expressing data flows as code. Airflow is downloaded more than 8 million times each month and is used by hundreds of thousands of teams around the world.N/A

    Oracle BPM Suite

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AThe Oracle Business Process Management Suite is an integrated environment for developing, administering, and using business applications centered around business processes.N/A
    Pricing
    Apache AirflowAstro by AstronomerOracle BPM Suite
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Apache AirflowAstro by AstronomerOracle BPM Suite
    Free Trial
    NoYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Apache AirflowAstro by AstronomerOracle BPM Suite
    Considered Multiple Products
    Apache
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Apache AirflowAstro by AstronomerOracle BPM Suite
    Workload Automation
    Comparison of Workload Automation features of Apache Airflow and Astro by Astronomer and Oracle BPM Suite
    Feature
    Apache Airflow
    8.5
    12 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Astro by Astronomer
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle BPM Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-platform scheduling9.112 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Central monitoring8.712 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Logging8.312 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts and notifications9.212 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analysis and visualization6.212 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application integration9.412 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Apache Airflow and Astro by Astronomer and Oracle BPM Suite
    Feature
    Apache Airflow
    -
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    Astro by Astronomer
    -
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    Oracle BPM Suite
    6.0
    5 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings00 Ratings6.05 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Apache Airflow and Astro by Astronomer and Oracle BPM Suite
    Feature
    Apache Airflow
    -
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    Astro by Astronomer
    -
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    Oracle BPM Suite
    7.4
    6 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Process designer00 Ratings00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Process simulation00 Ratings00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    Business rules engine00 Ratings00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    SOA support00 Ratings00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Process player00 Ratings00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages00 Ratings00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Form builder00 Ratings00 Ratings4.05 Ratings
    Model execution00 Ratings00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Apache Airflow and Astro by Astronomer and Oracle BPM Suite
    Feature
    Apache Airflow
    -
    Ratings
    Astro by Astronomer
    -
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    Oracle BPM Suite
    6.0
    4 Ratings
    32% below category average
    Social collaboration tools00 Ratings00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Apache Airflow and Astro by Astronomer and Oracle BPM Suite
    Feature
    Apache Airflow
    -
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    Astro by Astronomer
    -
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    Oracle BPM Suite
    7.0
    3 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Content management00 Ratings00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Apache AirflowAstro by AstronomerOracle BPM Suite
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    Process Street
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    JAMS
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Apache Spark
    Score8.8 out of 10
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Redwood RunMyJobs
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Apache Spark
    Score8.8 out of 10
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Apache AirflowAstro by AstronomerOracle BPM Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (12 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Apache AirflowAstro by AstronomerOracle BPM Suite
    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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    Astronomer, Inc.
    Astronomer is well suited for workflow and dependency management for enterprise-level data lakes. It is not a product for data processing though. Different source systems can be integrated, it also provides powerful interfaces for alerting and monitoring. Easy to build DAGs, graphical UI, API support makes the product more user-friendly as well. Astronomer also does a great job on user training.
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    Oracle
    Oracle BPM is well suited to organizations and environments that have a good understanding of their business processes and organizational structures. Trying to introduce a tool such as Oracle BPM into the organization without a good grasp on how the business operates is a recipe for disaster as the implementation will uncover all of the dirty secrets of an organizations business processes and bring them to light. BPM is not to be utilized for smaller service orchestrations or technical service implementations, these should be handled by the Oracle SOA Suite using the BPEL process manager, leaving BPM to handle the organizational business processes, referring to and including lower level services and BPEL processes as needed.
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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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    Astronomer, Inc.
    • Workflow management
    • Wide availability of plugins
    • Dependency management on upstream
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    Oracle
    • Oracle BPM [Suite] can support unlimited number of cases. No limitations in cases raised.
    • Oracle Weblogic can handle multiple traffic. [It] can handle lots of heavy load[s].
    • Oracle BPM has extensive integration with database[s]. Huge number[s] of customization can be created.
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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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    Astronomer, Inc.
    • More language agnostic
    • Flexible fork and join capabilities
    • Near real time UI updates in case of deployment of enhanced DAGs
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    Oracle
    • Oracle BPM is left behind by other tools more modern in terms of user experience, usability and ability to integrate with everything else.
    • To really harvest the potential of Oracle BPM you need to do it in JDeveloper and with ADF. This restricts its usage to very technical people.
    • The administration of the Oracle BPM tools has really put a burden on our team. It is running on Weblogic and we experience issues very often either with performance or with a bad configuration of the system.
    • As with all Oracle products, the price can be an issue for smaller shops.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Apache
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    Astronomer, Inc.
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    Oracle
    In many scenarios it should have provided more features. It took a lot of effort while debugging, making it difficult to maintain.
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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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    Astronomer, Inc.
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    Oracle
    Not easy to debug errors.
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    Implementation Rating
    Apache
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    Astronomer, Inc.
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    Oracle
    Overall satisfactory
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Astronomer, Inc.
    Astronomer is a fast, secure, scalable workload management solution. It provides world-class user training along with easy to interact support.
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    Oracle
    We evaluated Bonita and found that it might fit a smaller-sized company better; we found that Oracle BPM Suite scaled much more evenly. We almost went with one of the competitors, but in the end chose Oracle BPM Suite after we factored in the cost of VMware licensing. There are literally tons of analytics on the back end which are great for upper management, but not so much for average users, but this fits our business model quite well.
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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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    Astronomer, Inc.
    • It helps to build scalable, available and low maintenance workloads
    • Integrated Alerts and notifications helps to detect load issues in the early stages
    • Ensures meeting data SLAs
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    Oracle
    • You'll most certainly need a deep dive and extensive training before your users can even think of using the product and they are very expensive.
    • Lack of documentation makes it very difficult to manage the application if any error is encountered which will result in you ending up hiring a dedicated person to look into the application once it's deployed.
    • For a very large org., if properly implemented and used, it can help identify the cost-intensive and inefficient processes.
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