Apache Airflow vs. Mage

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Apache Airflow
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Apache Airflow is an open source tool that can be used to programmatically author, schedule and monitor data pipelines using Python and SQL. Created at Airbnb as an open-source project in 2014, Airflow was brought into the Apache Software Foundation’s Incubator Program 2016 and announced as Top-Level Apache Project in 2019. It is used as a data orchestration solution, with over 140 integrations and community support.N/A
Mage
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Mage is a tool that helps product developers use AI and their data to make predictions. Use cases might be predictions for churn prevention, product recommendations, customer lifetime value and forecasting sales.
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Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Hobby
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Pro
$2,000
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Features
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Workload Automation
Comparison of Workload Automation features of Product A and Product B
Apache Airflow
9.8
Ratings
17% above category average
Mage
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Multi-platform scheduling10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Central monitoring10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Logging10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Alerts and notifications10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Analysis and visualization10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Application integration9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
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Usability
10.0
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User Testimonials
Apache AirflowMage
Likelihood to Recommend
For a quick job scanning of status and deep-diving into job issues, details, and flows, AirFlow does a good job. No fuss, no muss. The low learning curve as the UI is very straightforward, and navigating it will be familiar after spending some time using it. Our requirements are pretty simple. Job scheduler, workflows, and monitoring. The jobs we run are >100, but still is a lot to review and troubleshoot when jobs don't run. So when managing large jobs, AirFlow dated UI can be a bit of a drawback.
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Mage is well-suited for probability score for uptake of every product is calculated for customers using ML/ Regression models, choosing customers for a product/ Top products for a customer, based on the requirement and Identifying popular product combinations using association rules from Market Basket Analysis (or affinity Analysis)\Bundle these products as combos.
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Pros
  • 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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  • Ranking algorithms.
  • Cloud-based tool.
  • Increase user engagement.
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Cons
  • A local "dry run" or IDE plugin that can validate and simulate DAG execution without needing a full environment.
  • Better feedback on DAG parse errors in the UI or CLI.
  • Navigating large DAGs with hundreds of tasks can be slow and hard to understand visually.
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  • Acquisition Contribution.
  • Business Intelligence Reporting.
  • Data Destinations.
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Usability
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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Alternatives Considered
Apache Airflow is suited for a much wider set of use cases compared to Databricks. You can run it anywhere, and there is also no vendor lock-in. With Airflow, we can utilize almost any compute engine. Same thing we want to do with Databricks. There might be some level of difficulty based on the support.
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Mage was the easiest in terms of ease of implementation due to its no-code functionality. However, Mage doesn't have a whole ecosystem like AWS and slightly falls behind there.
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Return on Investment
  • Most of the ETL processes were automated, cutting down on human labor.
  • Apache Airflow's user interface (UI) was very informative and straightforward.
  • Since ETL processes were providing data via airflow, we were able to gain a deeper comprehension of the data at hand.
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  • Business Understanding.
  • Data Acquisition and Understanding.
  • Data Modeling and Evaluation.
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