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."Visually, this is a good product."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The most valuable features of this solution are ease of use and implementation."
"We can integrate the tool with other applications easily."
"It's an automated flow, where you can build a flow from source to destination, then do the transformation in between."
"The most valuable feature has been the range of clients and the range of connectors that we could use."
"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 user interface is good and makes it easy to design very popular workflows."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution runs on the latest cloud technology so it is easy to deploy cloud-native projects."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Lambda is the preferred compute option because of on-demand cost. We don't have to provision any hardware beforehand. We don't have to provision the capacity required for the services because it is serverless."
"Technical support has been great in general."
"The programming language and the integration with other AWS services are the most valuable features."
"You can spin up anything instantly without any investment."
"The valuable feature of AWS Lambda is the ease of coding. It is easier to code using the solution."
"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."
"I think the UI interface needs to be more user-friendly."
"The use case templates could be more precise to typical business needs."
"There should be a better way to integrate a development environment with local tools."
"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."
"More features must be added to the product."
"There are some claims that NiFi is cloud-native but we have tested it, and it's not."
"There is room for improvement in integration with SSO. For example, NiFi does not have any integration with SSO. And if I want to give some kind of rollback access control across the organization. That is not possible."
"The price in general could always be better."
"There's room for improvement in the testing setup."
"Its performance can be improved. There should also be more dynamic security permissions."
"If you are setting it up on hybrid solution, there is a lot of work that needs to go in."
"The execution time could be better. One of the major limitations is the time period because it doesn't give you more than seven minutes. So, before thinking about Lambda, you should think through your use case and ensure it's a good fit. Otherwise, you can use batch, step functions, or other methods. Reports and the monitoring board could also be improved in terms of alerts. The threshold alerts are there but can be improved. It takes some time to get used to these methods and get the hang of them."
"The security needs to be improved."
"AWS Lambda could be improved with better stability."
"If you're running a new application with a significant load, you need to be prepared for potential bottlenecks."
Apache NiFi is ranked 8th in Compute Service with 10 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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