Doesn't seem like it can handle processing on real-time streams of data. They don't really seem comparable. From the readme: "Airflow is not a data streaming

Doesn't seem like it can handle processing on real-time streams of data. They don't really seem comparable. From the readme: "Airflow is not a data streaming solution. Tasks do not move data from one to the other (though tasks can exchange metadata!). Airflow is not in the Spark Streaming or Storm space, it is more comparable to Oozie or Azkaban."