We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow and ProcessMaker based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Management (BPM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."One of its most valuable features is the graphical user interface, providing a visual representation of the pipeline status, successes, failures, and informative developer messages."
"Since the solution is programmatic, it allows users to define pipelines in code rather than drag and drop."
"Development on Apache Airflow is really fast, and it's easy to use with the newer updates. Everything is in Python, so it's not hard to understand. They also have a graphical view, so if you are not a programmer and you are just an administrator, you can easily track everything and see if everything is working or not."
"We're running it on a virtual server, which we can easily upgrade if needed."
"The initial setup was straightforward and it does not take long to complete."
"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."
"The solution is flexible for all programming languages for all frameworks."
"Designing processes and workflows is easier, and it assists in coordinating all of the different processes."
"Its performance, stability, and security are fine."
"What I like most is the seamlessness of the workflow capabilities."
"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."
"There is an area for improvement in onboarding new people. They should make it simple for newcomers. Else, we have to put a senior engineer to operate it."
"The graphical user interface can be improved."
"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."
"For admins, there should be improved logging capabilities because Apache Airflow does have logging, but it's limited to some database data."
"We're currently using version 1.10, but I understand that there's a lot of improvements in version 2. In the earlier version that we're using, we sometimes have problems with maintenance complexity. Actually using Airflow is okay, but maintaining it has been difficult."
"The documentation must be improved."
"Apache Airflow could be improved by integrating some versioning principles."
"This solution only supports basic text, but we would like to be able to insert components such as rich text, graphs, charts, pictures, and other objects."
"Its interface should be a bit more user-friendly."
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Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while ProcessMaker is ranked 37th in Business Process Management (BPM). Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while ProcessMaker 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 ProcessMaker writes "Easy to learn, automates our manual processes to make things easier, and saves us time and money". Apache Airflow is most compared with Camunda, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, IBM BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and AWS Step Functions, whereas ProcessMaker is most compared with Camunda, Bonita and Appian. See our Apache Airflow vs. ProcessMaker report.
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