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From watching the presentation on Youtube (https://youtu.be/sQCgtCoZyFQ https://youtu.be/sQCgtCoZyFQ), it seems NiFi is geared towards acquisition of data, glui
by lsofzz 6y ago
From watching the presentation on Youtube (https://youtu.be/sQCgtCoZyFQ https://youtu.be/sQCgtCoZyFQ), it seems NiFi is geared towards acquisition of data, gluing/batching/massaging the flow between systems and providing the necessary interfaces to downstream systems;
- Would love to see the ability to develop custom NiFi processors in Go/Rust/Elixir etc.
- XML is a big pain in the rear.
- Being container-aware is big win. Stateless is even better.
I see a good opportunity there for users like me to explorer NiFi's capability in the future.
> They both schedule jobs and move data according to control flow topologies that you build in a GUI, right?
Airflow on the other hand is designed to run scheduled jobs (whether it be batched or otherwise). The 'job' can really be anything - build / data processing pipelines, system configuration management pipelines and so on. In Airflow parlance, one can create connected DAG's as pipelines that massage the data in a way you intend it to.
They both share some commonalities but I do gravitate towards their use cases being subtly different and an important one highlighted above.