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Advantages and Limitations Of Airflow

You learnt about Airflow in detail, but you will not be able to completely understand a particular tool without knowing its limitations.

In this upcoming video, Ajay will discuss some of the advantages and limitations of Apache Airflow.

So, in the video, you learnt about some of the advantages and limitations of Airflow.

These are presented in the table given below.

Advantages  Limitations
Best suited for batch ETL process orchestrationNot suitable for scheduling streaming jobs; tools such as Nifi/StreamSets can be used for stream process scheduling or Supervisor for monitoring
Extensive UI and connectorsNo native support for Windows
Plenty of retry options; visual DAGs for troubleshooting in the UINo standby process for the scheduler
Supports complex workflows

This marks the end of the third session, In the next segment, we will discuss all the topics that were covered in this session.

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