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    Apache Airflow

    Score8.8 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
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    Features
    Apache AirflowAstro by Astronomer
    Workload Automation
    Comparison of Workload Automation features of Apache Airflow and Astro by Astronomer
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    Apache Airflow
    8.5
    12 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Astro by Astronomer
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    Multi-platform scheduling9.212 Ratings00 Ratings
    Central monitoring8.812 Ratings00 Ratings
    Logging8.312 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts and notifications9.212 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analysis and visualization6.312 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application integration9.412 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Apache AirflowAstro by Astronomer
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    User Testimonials
    Apache AirflowAstro by Astronomer
    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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