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 most valuable features of this solution are ease of use and implementation."
"The user interface is good and makes it easy to design very popular workflows."
"Visually, this is a good product."
"We can integrate the tool with other applications easily."
"Apache NiFi is user-friendly. Its most valuable features for handling large volumes of data include its multitude of integrated endpoints and clients and the ability to create cron jobs to run tasks at regular intervals."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The most valuable feature has been the range of clients and the range of connectors that we could use."
"The cool thing about AWS Lambda is that AWS does all the management. For compression, it is all about making the data small and then making it regular size again. We have an encode function and a decode function. AWS Lambda schedules each of those for us. It has a load balancer and all the fancy stuff, depending on the demand. The most valuable part of AWS Lambda is that I only need to write the software. I need to write two functions, and my cloud developer turns them into two AWS Lambda instances. That's it."
"Some of the most valuable features are that it's easy to install and use. The performance is also good."
"I like the pay-for-what-you-use feature. This is the main reason why we use AWS Lambda. I don't have to manage servers; I just have to configure Lambda and expose it to an API gateway."
"It is my preferred product, as it provides me with source code within the solution."
"By using Lambda, we can use Python code and the Boto3 solution."
"AWS Lambda has improved our productivity and functionality."
"The programming language and the integration with other AWS services are the most valuable features."
"The automation feature is valuable."
"I think the UI interface needs to be more user-friendly."
"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 are some claims that NiFi is cloud-native but we have tested it, and it's not."
"More features must be added to the product."
"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."
"There should be a better way to integrate a development environment with local tools."
"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 tool should incorporate more tutorials for advanced use cases. It has tutorials for simple use cases."
"Lambda has limitations on the amount of memory you can use and is not a good solution for long running processes."
"I have seen some drawbacks with certain integrations."
"The product needs some updating as far as ease-of-customization and configuration opportunities to work with solutions outside of the cloud."
"If you are setting it up on hybrid solution, there is a lot of work that needs to go in."
"I want to see support for longer applications. I need the 15-minute time-out window to improve."
"AWS Lambda could be improved by increasing the size of the payload. Also, sometimes Lambda doesn't implement well for bigger solutions."
"The running time of AWS Lambda runs fine. It takes around five minutes but it would be great if that time could be extended."
"Lambda's dashboard could be more user-friendly and customizable. I want the dashboard to have more information to quickly identify what functions and events are running. Also, we want to be able to add more trigger points, push notifications, and events."
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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