Apache Airflow vs. Y42

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
Y42
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Y42 is a managed Modern DataOps Cloud purpose-built to help companies design production-ready data pipelines on top of their Google BigQuery or Snowflake cloud data warehouse. Y42 provides native integration of open source data tools, data governance, and collaboration for data teams. Y42 helps organizations gain accessibility to data to make data-driven decisions more quickly.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsEarly-stage ventures can apply for a dedicated startup pricing plan, tailored towards their current and future goals.
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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
10 Ratings
17% above category average
Y42
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Multi-platform scheduling10.010 Ratings00 Ratings
Central monitoring10.010 Ratings00 Ratings
Logging10.010 Ratings00 Ratings
Alerts and notifications10.010 Ratings00 Ratings
Analysis and visualization10.010 Ratings00 Ratings
Application integration9.010 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Apache AirflowY42
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(10 ratings)
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Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Apache AirflowY42
Likelihood to Recommend
Apache
Airflow is well-suited for data engineering pipelines, creating scheduled workflows, and working with various data sources. You can implement almost any kind of DAG for any use case using the different operators or enforce your operator using the Python operator with ease. The MLOps feature of Airflow can be enhanced to match MLFlow-like features, making Airflow the go-to solution for all workloads, from data science to data engineering.
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Datos-Intelligence GmbH
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Pros
Apache
  • 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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Cons
Apache
  • UI/Dashboard can be updated to be customisable, and jobs summary in groups of errors/failures/success, instead of each job, so that a summary of errors can be used as a starting point for reviewing them.
  • Navigation - It's a bit dated. Could do with more modern web navigation UX. i.e. sidebars navigation instead of browser back/forward.
  • Again core functional reorg in terms of UX. Navigation can be improved for core functions as well, instead of discovery.
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Usability
Apache
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
Multiple DAGs can be orchestrated simultaneously at varying times, and runs can be reproduced or replicated with relative ease. Overall, utilizing Apache Airflow is easier to use than other solutions now on the market. It is simple to integrate in Apache Airflow, and the workflow can be monitored and scheduling can be done quickly using Apache Airflow. We advocate using this tool for automating the data pipeline or process.
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Datos-Intelligence GmbH
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Return on Investment
Apache
  • Impact Depends on number of workflows. If there are lot of workflows then it has a better usecase as the implementation is justified as it needs resources , dedicated VMs, Database that has a cost
  • Donot use it if you have very less usecases
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