Apache Airflow vs. Azure Event Hubs

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Apache Airflow
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Apache Airflow is an open source tool that can be used to programmatically author, schedule and monitor data pipelines using Python and SQL. Created at Airbnb as an open-source project in 2014, Airflow was brought into the Apache Software Foundation’s Incubator Program 2016 and announced as Top-Level Apache Project in 2019. It is used as a data orchestration solution, with over 140 integrations and community support.N/A
Azure Event Hubs
Score 6.7 out of 10
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Event Hubs is a managed, real-time data ingestion service that’s used to stream millions of events per second from any source to build dynamic data pipelines and respond to business challenges. Users can continue to process data during emergencies using the geo-disaster recovery and geo-replication features. It can be integrated with other Azure services to unlock insights. Existing Apache Kafka clients and applications can be allowed to talk to Event Hubs without any code changes, producing a…N/A
Pricing
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Apache AirflowAzure Event Hubs
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Workload Automation
Comparison of Workload Automation features of Product A and Product B
Apache Airflow
8.8
12 Ratings
5% above category average
Azure Event Hubs
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Ratings
Multi-platform scheduling9.312 Ratings00 Ratings
Central monitoring9.012 Ratings00 Ratings
Logging8.612 Ratings00 Ratings
Alerts and notifications9.312 Ratings00 Ratings
Analysis and visualization6.912 Ratings00 Ratings
Application integration9.312 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Apache AirflowAzure Event Hubs
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(12 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(3 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Apache AirflowAzure Event Hubs
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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Microsoft
Large IoT data ingestion which needs to be processed as batches or data which requires certain time to process in such scenario Azure Event Hubs is working very effective.
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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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Microsoft
  • message queuing
  • data processing for notification.
  • Handling large volumes of data from multiple sources.
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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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Microsoft
  • pricing should be less
  • integration with the services should be enhanced.
  • Deduplication functionality should be there in Azure Event Hubs
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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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Microsoft
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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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Microsoft
All platforms are good, costing wise it is effective, scalable is being managed by Azure Event Hubs only so only configuration is being required to do, also provides the encrypted, reliable and secure solution .
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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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Microsoft
  • reducing the cost as you don't need to create a solution which is scalable
  • increasing the productivity of the solution.
  • customer satisfaction can be increased by integrating it as a solution.
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