We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow and Camunda Platform based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Camunda Platform has an edge over Apache Airflow in this comparison. It is easier to deploy and is scalable and robust. However, Apache Airflow users are overall more satisfied with the pricing of the product.
"The solution's UI allows me to collect all the information and see the code lines."
"Apache Airflow is easy to use and can monitor task execution easily. For instance, when performing setup tasks, you can conveniently view the logs without delving into the job details."
"We have been quite satisfied with the stability of the solution."
"The reason we went with Airflow is its DAG presentation, that shows the relationships among everything. It's more of a configuration-driven workflow."
"The best feature is the customization."
"The solution is quite configurable so it is easy to code within a configuration kind of environment."
"The user interface for monitoring and managing workflows has been excellent, particularly in the latest version. c"
"It's stable."
", Camunda can be a powerful tool to work with when used in an optimized and well-implemented manner."
"Overall, the solution has been very solid."
"Provides an easy way to integrate with the architectural environment."
"Ease of use and ability to streamline a process model."
"It is very user-friendly compared to IBM BPM. It's much simpler – it's more streamlined. That means even non-technical departments can use it."
"It has been a stable solution so far since it meets our needs, including data modeling, which we need to do before we embark on analyzing and optimizing the business processes."
"The most valuable features are the workflow, the task list, and the modeler where we use VPN."
"I love that Camunda is a very developer-friendly platform, and my customers have evaluated the pricing as reasonable."
"Airflow should support the dynamic drag creation."
"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."
"Programmatically, it's very good, and it doesn't have any competitors, but you cannot develop anything in Airflow UI. You need to develop everything within the program. In the market, other tools have come up recently as competitors to Airflow, and they also give graphical programming options, whereas Airflow doesn't provide that feature currently. All the DAGs you want to build need to be coded in Python."
"The scalability of the solution itself is not as we expected. Being on the cloud, it should be easy to scale, however, it's not."
"The dashboards could be enhanced."
"Apache Airflow should have better integration with cloud platforms."
"I would like to see some no-code capabilities and drag and drop abilities in Airflow."
"Adding more automated components in Apache Airflow for basic things like exporting the data would be helpful."
"An improvement would be to support Angular 2 instead of AngularJS, which is quite old."
"In the future, I would like to see better transactional integrity."
"The product's initial setup phase is difficult for beginners."
"I would like to have a feature for audit logging, audit logs and audit log management. And some history of use for the audit logs."
"Camunda could be improved by making it easier to modify a process. You can program it to follow a process, but it is difficult to modify the process when the application is in use. It could also be improved by making it easier to use the visual platform without needing to be informed on that. Sometimes, we programmers haven't used it in the past, and it's a bit difficult to learn it."
"While it's very scalable, it would be great if auto-scaling capabilities were added to it... one area that really could help out would be to have dynamic resizing of the cluster. Right now, you have to do capacity planning."
"The latency of API could be decreased."
"The Camunda Modeler installation poses a challenge, requiring local installation, which doesn't help collaboration like other online tools, for instance."
Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while Camunda is ranked 1st in Business Process Management (BPM) with 71 reviews. Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while Camunda is rated 8.2. 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 Camunda writes "Open-source, easy to define new processes, and easy to transition to new business process definitions". Apache Airflow is most compared with IBM BPM, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, IBM Business Automation Workflow, AWS Step Functions and Bizagi, whereas Camunda is most compared with Bizagi, Pega BPM, IBM BPM, Appian and Bonita. See our Apache Airflow vs. Camunda report.
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