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Is it similar to apache nifi?
by panchicore3 4y ago
Is it similar to apache nifi?
- qlong-seattle 4y agoTook at quick look at apache nifi. Here is my conclusion but anyone feel free to correct me if I am wrong: I think they only overlap for a small part but quite different: * Nifi is focusing on moving/sharing datafile (meaning the size could be big) across the system * Nifi does have some logic control flow to act like workflow, but it's not too closed to be a "workflow system" because it missing a lot of capabilities that a typical workflows should have (see "What they all have in common " in https://medium.com/@qlong/iwf-vs-other-general-purposed-workflow-engines-f8f3e3d8993d https://medium.com/@qlong/iwf-vs-other-general-purposed-work...) * iWF is a general purposed workflow engine, could conceptually do data sharing but it is not good at sharing the big amount of data or data files * iWF is more specialized at controlling/orchestrating the business