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I work for an IT consultancy firm, and we have some customers asking for it right now (mostly in the banking sector). The reason is Horton works deprecated Apa
by eb0la 8y ago
I work for an IT consultancy firm, and we have some customers asking for it right now (mostly in the banking sector).
The reason is Horton works deprecated Apache Flume and bundled Nifi instead.
Personally I don't like it. I prefer other ETL tools like Talend. I also find confusing the user interface.
The good part is that NIFi processed are buffered, and you can keep metadata (like data provenance) with the records which is very helpful for compliance.
- newusr 8y agoOur company was desperate for an ETL solution like this, and we spent a good deal of time with NiFi - partly because Hortonworks was pushing it. We found the UI crummy, the execution engine sloppy and overall, it came across as half-baked... ...we lost a lot of time trying to make it work, but gave up. So many other ETL tools out there, no need to put up with a half-baked platform. Hortonworks probably picked Nifi up to differentiate themselves from Cloudera. I wonder if given the merge with Cloudera, they wont just scrap this whole NiFi thing. With so many ETL tools out there, not enough mindshare to keep NiFi going...I do not recommend creating a dependancy in your stack on it.