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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

    Jenkins

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AJenkins is an open source automation server. Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project. As an extensible automation server, Jenkins can be used as a simple CI server or turned into a continuous delivery hub for any project.N/A

    TeamCity

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/ATeamCity is a continuous integration server from Czeck company JetBrains.N/A
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    Community Pulse
    Apache AirflowJenkinsTeamCity
    Considered Multiple Products
    Apache
    Chose Apache Airflow
    Using Jenkins and Kafka, it is not for the same purpose, although it might be similar. I would say AirFlow is really what it says on the can - workflow management. For our organisation, the purpose is clear. So long your aim is to have a rich workflow scheduler and job …
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    Open Source
    Chose Jenkins
    Both Jenkins and TeamCity do a good job of automating CI/CD. Jenkins runs much leaner than TeamCity - it only needs about a Gig of free memory, whereas TeamCity needs a fat 4 Gig free. Many tasks in Jenkins yml config can be very cumbersome, especially running local and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Jenkins
    When looking for alternatives for Jenkins we found CircleCI and TeamCity are good too. Jenkins was considered for reasons like it has a wide variety of plugins which integrate well with any kind of system. And its ease of use.

    One of the other greater advantage is it is open …
    Incentivized
    Chose Jenkins
    TeamCity is another viable option for Continuous Integration/Development. We picked Jenkins in this case because there was a lot of support for Amazon CloudFormation and other AWS integrations which fit the task at hand. For just straight compiling Microsoft based builds, TeamCi…
    Incentivized
    Chose Jenkins
    I would use TeamCity if Jenkins was not already in place. TeamCity seems a lot more stable when it comes to upgrading the software and job templates the way TeamCity handles them is an absolute killer feature. Jenkins is a bit of a wild animal, quite unpredictable but with the …
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    Chose Jenkins
    Jenkins is ideal for developing software with high-security demands. It is hosted and set up locally and has no outside connections. But these pros could become cons when you work on open source projects and need to waste time for initial setup and maintenance over a project's …
    Incentivized
    Chose Jenkins
    I just started to use TeamCity so later I can give you a better comparison.
    Incentivized
    Chose Jenkins
    I have experience with TeamCity. It looks pretty good after Jenkins, the user interface is friendly and modern. The functionality is similar to Jenkins. It is not a big problem to migrate configuration from Jenkins to TeamCity or to return back. You need licenses to use it in …
    Incentivized
    Chose Jenkins
    Jenkins is the only tool I would consider using for CTCI deployment. Its plugins make it easy to customize to any environment you can conjure up and will always be custom fit to your needs as a DevOps engineer. Other tools have better support but lack the customizability and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Jenkins
    It is free, of course that's the best advantage. Great number of plugins. Largest active developer community among peer competitors. Very few competitors have got the pipelines features right as good as Jenkins.
    Incentivized
    Chose Jenkins
    Jenkins is open source and gives flexibility of integrating it with various products and platforms.
    Incentivized
    Chose Jenkins
    Unfortunately I can't weight on decision making points since selection of Jenkins was made prior to me joining the company.
    Incentivized
    Chose Jenkins
    I've used these others as well:
    TeamCity
    - has master slave concept but master is also not load balance-able like Jenkins.
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    JetBrains
    Chose TeamCity
    Jenkins relies on being open source as the primary driver for its success. This low cost is a huge factor for many companies, both small and large. The professional, free tier of TeamCity offers a huge amount of growth before ever needing to pay anything. I personally also find …
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    Chose TeamCity
    Since we were already making use of other JetBrains offerings, TeamCity had a leg up on the competition due to the ease of integration with these tools. With that said, TeamCity's feature set stacks up well with the competition. Jenkins definitely has some nice features, but …
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    Chose TeamCity
    Jenkins and Team Foundation Server (TFS) are both strong products. Compared to Jenkins, TeamCity is much more mature and polished. Though Jenkins is open-source/free, the cost of TeamCity is a drop in the bucket compared to the total cost of even one project we're using it …
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    Chose TeamCity
    TeamCity is more easy to use and configurated easily.
    Incentivized
    Chose TeamCity
    This application is easy to install and deploy at site than most of the similar solutions in market. Easy user interface is one of the reason it can be installed. However each software have its good points and bad points. Study your organizations case and then only choose …
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    Chose TeamCity
    I would also like to compare TeamCity against Snap-Ci as well as Concourse. We chose TeamCity over all of these tools because of its ability to be set up easily against a restricting corporate firewall. We needed to integrate unit tests, integration tests, pushes to production, …
    Incentivized
    Chose TeamCity
    TeamCity by far has the best interface TeamCity still supported our old SubVersion reports as well.
    Incentivized
    Chose TeamCity
    I like the quality of Jetbrains products. TeamCity is well supported and regularly updated by Jetbrains. They have an active support forum and most questions are answered quickly.

    TeamCity is very extendable and has been able to handle everything we've been required to do.
    Incentivized
    Chose TeamCity
    TeamCity is the best combination of price and full features. It has a good web UI and doesn't need a lot of manual configuration files, but it still is incredibly extensible and can do just about any build or release task you set it at. If it can't do it, the odds are it has a …
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    Chose TeamCity
    • Easy implementation.
    • Cleaner dashboard and UI.
    • Better documentation and tutorials.
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    Features
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    Workload Automation
    Comparison of Workload Automation features of Apache Airflow and Jenkins and TeamCity
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    Apache Airflow
    8.5
    12 Ratings
    3% above category average
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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
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    JAMS
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    User Ratings
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    User Testimonials
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    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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    Open Source
    Jenkins is a highly customizable CI/CD tool with excellent community support. One can use Jenkins to build and deploy monolith services to microservices with ease. It can handle multiple "builds" per agent simultaneously, but the process can be resource hungry, and you need some impressive specs server for that. With Jenkins, you can automate almost any task. Also, as it is an open source, we can save a load of money by not spending on enterprise CI/CD tools.
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    JetBrains
    TeamCity is very quick and straightforward to get up and running. A new server and a handful of agents could be brought online in easily under an hour. The professional tier is completely free, full-featured, and offers a huge amount of growth potential. TeamCity does exceptionally well in a small-scale business or enterprise setting.
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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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    Open Source
    • Automated Builds: Jenkins is configured to monitor the version control system for new pull requests. Once a pull request is created, Jenkins automatically triggers a build process. It checks out the code, compiles it, and performs any necessary build steps specified in the configuration.
    • Unit Testing: Jenkins runs the suite of unit tests defined for the project. These tests verify the functionality of individual components and catch any regressions or errors. If any unit tests fail, Jenkins marks the build as unsuccessful, and the developer is notified to fix the issues.
    • Code Analysis: Jenkins integrates with code analysis tools like SonarQube or Checkstyle. It analyzes the code for quality, adherence to coding standards, and potential bugs or vulnerabilities. The results are reported back to the developer and the product review team for further inspection.
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    JetBrains
    • TeamCity provides a great integration with git, especially Bitbucket.
    • When a new code release (build) fails TeamCity has a great tool for investigation and troubleshooting.
    • TeamCity provides a user-friendly interface. While some technical knowledge is required to use TeamCity, the design helps simply things.
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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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    Open Source
    • The UI could be slightly better, it feels kind of like the 90s, but it works well.
    • An easier way to filter jobs other than views on the dashboard.
    • An easier way to read the console logs when tests do fail.
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    JetBrains
    • The customization is still fairly complex and is best managed by a dev support team. There is great flexibility, but with flexibility comes responsibility. It isn't always obvious to a developer how to make simple customizations.
    • Sometimes the process for dealing with errors in the process isn't obvious. Some paths to rerunning steps redo dependencies unnecessarily while other paths that don't are less obvious.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Apache
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    Open Source
    We have a certain buy-in as we have made a lot of integrations and useful tools around jenkins, so it would cost us quite some time to change to another tool. Besides that, it is very versatile, and once you have things set up, it feels unnecessary to change tool. It is also a plus that it is open source.
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    JetBrains
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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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    Open Source
    Jenkins streamlines development and provides end to end automated integration and deployment. It even supports Docker and Kubernetes using which container instances can be managed effectively. It is easy to add documentation and apply role based access to files and services using Jenkins giving full control to the users. Any deviation can be easily tracked using the audit logs.
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    JetBrains
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    Performance
    Apache
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    Open Source
    No, when we integrated this with GitHub, it becomes more easy and smart to manage and control our workforce. Our distributed workforce is now streamlined to a single bucket. All of our codes and production outputs are now automatically synced with all the workers. There are many cases when our in-house team makes changes in the release, our remote workers make another release with other environment variables. So it is better to get all of the work in control.
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    JetBrains
    TeamCity runs really well, even when sharing a small instance with other applications. The user interface adequately conveys important information without being overly bloated, and it is snappy. There isn't any significant overhead to build agents or unit test runners that we have measured.
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    Support Rating
    Apache
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    Open Source
    As with all open source solutions, the support can be minimal and the information that you can find online can at times be misleading. Support may be one of the only real downsides to the overall software package. The user community can be helpful and is needed as the product is not the most user-friendly thing we have used.
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    JetBrains
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    Implementation Rating
    Apache
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    Open Source
    It is worth well the time to setup Jenkins in a docker container. It is also well worth to take the time to move any "Jenkins configuration" into Jenkinsfiles and not take shortcuts.
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    JetBrains
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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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    Open Source
    Overall, Jenkins is the easiest platform for someone who has no experience to come in and use effectively. We can get a junior engineer into Jenkins, give them access, and point them in the right direction with minimal hand-holding. The competing products I have used (TravisCI/GitLab/Azure) provide other options but can obfuscate the process due to the lack of straightforward simplicity. In other areas (capability, power, customization), Jenkins keeps up with the competition and, in some areas, like customization, exceeds others.
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    JetBrains
    TeamCity is a great on-premise Continuous Integration tool. Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is a hosted SAAS application in Microsoft's Cloud. VSTS is a Source Code Repository, Build and Release System, and Agile Project Management Platform - whereas TeamCity is a Build and Release System only. TeamCity's interface is easier to use than VSTS, and neither have a great deployment pipeline solution. But VSTS's natural integration with Microsoft products, Microsoft's Cloud, Integration with Azure Active Directory, and free, private, Source Code repository - offer additional features and capabilities not available with Team City alone.
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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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    Open Source
    • Faster Time-to-Market: Jenkins automate the build, testing, and deployment process, enabling faster feedback and continuous improvement.
    • Improved Quality: Jenkins automatically run unit tests and integration tests, ensuring that code changes meet the necessary quality standards.
    • Cost Savings: Jenkins is an open-source tool that is free to use
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    JetBrains
    • TeamCity has greatly improved team efficiency by streamlining our production and pre-production pipelines. We moved to TeamCity after seeing other teams have more success with it than we had with other tools.
    • TeamCity has helped the reliability of our product by easily allowing us to integrate unit testing, as well as full integration testing. This was not possible with other tools given our corporate firewall.
    • TeamCity's ability to include Docker containers in the pipeline steps has been crucial in improving our efficiency and reliability.
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