Astronomer - Enterprise Airflow management made easy
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Astronomer airflow provides easy to use, scalable workflow & dependency management interface. Airflow supports use cases for ingestion, data preparation, and load. Primarily used as enterprise big data pipeline management and data quality checks. Astronomer also provides critical support for alerting and notifications.
Pros
- Workflow management
- Wide availability of plugins
- Dependency management on upstream
Cons
- More language agnostic
- Flexible fork and join capabilities
- Near real time UI updates in case of deployment of enhanced DAGs
Most Important Features
- Workflow management
- Easy to manage
- Dependency management between data flows
Return on Investment
- It helps to build scalable, available and low maintenance workloads
- Integrated Alerts and notifications helps to detect load issues in the early stages
- Ensures meeting data SLAs
Other Software Used
Apache Hive, Apache Spark
