We performed a comparison between Apache NiFi and AWS Lambda based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Compute Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup is very easy. I would rate my experience with the initial setup a ten out of ten, where one point is difficult, and ten points are easy."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"It's an automated flow, where you can build a flow from source to destination, then do the transformation in between."
"The user interface is good and makes it easy to design very popular workflows."
"The most valuable feature has been the range of clients and the range of connectors that we could use."
"The most valuable features of this solution are ease of use and implementation."
"Visually, this is a good product."
"We can integrate the tool with other applications easily."
"AWS Lambda has improved our productivity and functionality."
"It's also suitable for companies of any size. For example, we're a large enterprise, and we've used Lambda without any problems in the last 10 months."
"Lambda makes the administration of all our services related to Amazon really easy."
"I think the most valuable feature is the agility of the solution."
"The most valuable feature is that there is no need to implement it in a server because it is a service."
"AWS Lambda is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Lambda, from a conceptual point, is its functions. For example, it's mathematical templates into which you can write, and create your solution. You write small pieces of a solution under given parameters."
"Lambda being serverless is a great feature that is appropriate for our use cases."
"The tool should incorporate more tutorials for advanced use cases. It has tutorials for simple use cases."
"There are some claims that NiFi is cloud-native but we have tested it, and it's not."
"The overall stability of this solution could be improved. In a future release, we would like to have access to more features that could be used in a parallel way. This would provide more freedom with processing."
"There should be a better way to integrate a development environment with local tools."
"I think the UI interface needs to be more user-friendly."
"More features must be added to the product."
"We run many jobs, and there are already large tables. When we do not control NiFi on time, all reports fail for the day. So it's pretty slow to control, and it has to be improved."
"The use case templates could be more precise to typical business needs."
"The 60 seconds limitation with the consumption of the service is really restrictive for a service and the solution can be improved by eliminating that."
"AWS Lambda should support additional languages."
"The deployment process is a bit complex, so it could be simplified to make it easier for beginners to deploy."
"The price in general could always be better."
"It would be ideal if we could use the solution across different platforms."
"There's room for improvement in the testing setup."
"AWS Lambda has some size limitations in the code line, you can't do a couple of functions to do the job."
"Its performance can be improved. There should also be more dynamic security permissions."
Apache NiFi is ranked 8th in Compute Service with 11 reviews while AWS Lambda is ranked 1st in Compute Service with 70 reviews. Apache NiFi is rated 7.8, while AWS Lambda is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Apache NiFi writes "Allows the creation and use of custom functions to achieve desired functionality but limitation in handling monthly transactions due to a lack of partitioning for dates". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AWS Lambda writes "An easily scalable solution with a variety of use cases and valuable event-based triggers". Apache NiFi is most compared with Google Cloud Dataflow, Apache Spark, Azure Stream Analytics, Apache Storm and AWS Fargate, whereas AWS Lambda is most compared with AWS Batch, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Apache Spark, AWS Fargate and Google Cloud Dataflow. See our AWS Lambda vs. Apache NiFi report.
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