We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow and WorkflowGen based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Camunda, Apache, Pega and others in Business Process Management (BPM)."The best feature is the customization."
"Since the solution is programmatic, it allows users to define pipelines in code rather than drag and drop."
"Its user-friendly interface makes it straightforward to operate, offering a plethora of features for data preparation, buffering, and format conversion."
"The user interface for monitoring and managing workflows has been excellent, particularly in the latest version. c"
"I found the following features very useful: DAG - Workload management and orchestration of tasks using."
"The solution's UI allows me to collect all the information and see the code lines."
"Apache Airflow is in Python language, making it easy to use and learn."
"Since Apache works very well on Python, we can manage everything and create pipelines there."
"We use it a lot for creating workflows to transfer materials between plants, which is a signature part of what we do."
"Technical support is an area that needs improvement."
"The automation capabilities could be improved; a visual workflow designer and a graphical tool to reduce coding would be very helpful. But for now, it's sufficient for our simple workflows."
"Apache Airflow could be improved with the addition of more frameworks."
"We have faced scenarios where Apache Airflow becomes non-responsive, leading to job failures. To resolve such situations, we had to manually reboot Apache Airflow since it doesn't provide an option to restart within the application. This necessitated modifying some configurations to initiate a restart of all Apache Airflow components. Although Apache Airflow is generally dependable, it may occasionally encounter glitches that can disrupt production flows and batches."
"The problem with Apache Airflow is that it is an open-source tool. You have to build it into a Kubernetes container, which is not easy to maintain, and I find it to be very clunky."
"We need to develop our workflow description and notations because out of the box, Apache Airflow does not provide some features that are needed."
"I have some issues with the solution's communication."
"I would like to see it more friendly for other use cases."
"This solution needs to be more customizable."
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Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while WorkflowGen is ranked 53rd in Business Process Management (BPM). Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while WorkflowGen is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Apache Airflow writes "Enable seamless integration with various connectivity and integrated services, including BigQuery and Python operators ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WorkflowGen writes "Good for automatically triggering workflows, but needs to be more customizable". Apache Airflow is most compared with Camunda, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, IBM BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and AWS Step Functions, whereas WorkflowGen is most compared with .
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