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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

    Talend Open Studio (discontinued)

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/ATalend Open Studio was an open source integration software, used to build basic data pipelines or execute simple ETL and data integration tasks. Qlik and Talend discontinued the service in early 2024, and it is no longer available.

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    Apache AirflowAstro by AstronomerTalend Open Studio (discontinued)
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    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Apache AirflowAstro by AstronomerTalend Open Studio (discontinued)
    Considered Multiple Products
    Apache
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    Astronomer, Inc.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Apache AirflowAstro by AstronomerTalend Open Studio (discontinued)
    Workload Automation
    Comparison of Workload Automation features of Apache Airflow and Astro by Astronomer and Talend Open Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    Apache Airflow
    8.5
    12 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Astro by Astronomer
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    Talend Open Studio (discontinued)
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    Multi-platform scheduling9.212 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
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Apache Airflow and Astro by Astronomer and Talend Open Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    Apache Airflow
    -
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    Talend Open Studio (discontinued)
    7.5
    10 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings00 Ratings7.010 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings00 Ratings7.99 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of Apache Airflow and Astro by Astronomer and Talend Open Studio (discontinued)
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    Apache Airflow
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    Talend Open Studio (discontinued)
    7.0
    10 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Simple transformations00 Ratings00 Ratings6.010 Ratings
    Complex transformations00 Ratings00 Ratings7.910 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Apache Airflow and Astro by Astronomer and Talend Open Studio (discontinued)
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    Talend Open Studio (discontinued)
    7.5
    10 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Data model creation00 Ratings00 Ratings6.99 Ratings
    Metadata management00 Ratings00 Ratings7.99 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow00 Ratings00 Ratings6.98 Ratings
    Collaboration00 Ratings00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    Testing and debugging00 Ratings00 Ratings8.910 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of Apache Airflow and Astro by Astronomer and Talend Open Studio (discontinued)
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    Talend Open Studio (discontinued)
    6.5
    7 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings00 Ratings6.06 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Apache AirflowAstro by AstronomerTalend Open Studio (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (12 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.9
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    -
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    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    4.9
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Apache AirflowAstro by AstronomerTalend Open Studio (discontinued)
    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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    Discontinued Products
    For quick daily integrations Talend is a very good tool and it makes development time so short and easy. Citizen developers who are not great programmers can pick up and start using Talend Open Studio within weeks. It's well suited for all kinds of data migration between various systems. It is less appropriate for smaller synchronous services where you need to trace the complete transaction and how data moved between them. It's also less appropriate for small data movements where other tools can be easier to use and manage.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • Your developers will be able to design SOA services graphically, and it is very easy to document and implement the code.
    • Talend Open Studio is based on Eclipse IDE, so your developers will be very comfy using it
    • Open is Key in Talend Open Studio = Open Source
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • The community is not that up to date and forum is not that great in response. Probably we should make people aware of the tool more on how to use and its implementations.
    • Talend crashes when transforming a lot of data (millions of rows).
    • Proper training documentation is a must for talend which is currently lagging. This will help users to learn more about Talend and use it effectively.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Apache
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    Astronomer, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    There is no licence requirement for Talend Open Studio. So, this is not relevant question. However, if you are asking whether we will use Talend in future. Yes. We will continue to use it. It's very powerful free tool which caters to all our extra, transform, load capabilities. We just love Talend for it's great functionality and ease of use.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    Talend Open Studio is based on Eclipse and is full of redundant procedures to do one thing, like when installing libraries. Sometimes I cannot manually download the libraries that it can't find.
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    Performance
    Apache
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    Astronomer, Inc.
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    Discontinued Products
    Many times, Talend freezes. When you give a cancel command, it takes several minutes to stop. It also takes a great toll on our PC with 16 GB of ram and I7 CPU, even in idle status. If you are downloading Maven Jar/Libraries, you cannot do anything and have to wait until the task is finished.
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    Support Rating
    Apache
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    Astronomer, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Talend Open Studio is free and we are not using the enterprise version which comes with licence and support. So, mostly depend on the open source community for any issues that we face. The document is good and we didn't have to use any support so far. We did evaluate the enterprise version and so far sticking to the free version.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    Informatica has a limited number of components that you can use. This places a heavy limitation on the capabilities of Informatica. On the other hand, Talend allows you to create your own custom components using Java. For businesses that need to perform a wide variety of data operations, it can be quite useful to have the option of creating your own custom components to satisfy business needs.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • I delivered projects the client did not believe were possible, and I provided intermediate value by providing visibility to hidden data problems in their systems they could not detect before.
    • I was able to work 3 projects at a time, pausing gracefully in one while switching to the other, with minimal effort.
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