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Daniil Yefimov
Daniil Yefimov

Reputation: 1012

Metaflow from Netflix vs Apache Airflow

I have a questions regarding differences between Apache Airflow and Metaflow(https://docs.metaflow.org/). As far as I understood Apache airflow is just a job scheduler, that runs tasks. Metaflow from Netflix is as a dataflow library, which creates machine learning pipeline(dataflow is available) in forms of DAGs. Basically it means, that Metaflow can be executed on the Apache Airflow?

is my understanding correct? If yes, is it possible to convert Metaflow DAG into Apache Airflow DAG?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2578

Answers (1)

andnik
andnik

Reputation: 2804

Honestly, I haven't worked with Metaflow and thank you for introducing it to me! There is a nice introduction video you can find on Youtube.

Airflow is a framework for creating scheduled pipelines. A pipeline is a set of tasks, linked between each other that represent an Directed Acyclic Graph. Pipeline can be scheduled, you can tell how often or when it should run, you can tell when it should've ran in the past and what time period it should backfill. You can run the whole Airflow as one single docker container or you can have multi-node cluster, it has bunch of already existing operators to integrate with 3rd party services. I recommend to look into Airflow Architecture and concepts.

Metaflow looks like something similar, but created specifically for data-scientists. I can be wrong here, but looking at the Metaflow Basics it looks like I can the same way create a scheduled pipeline similar to Airflow.

I would look in specific tools you want to integrate with and which one of both integrates better. As mentioned, Airflow has lots of already made connectors and operators, as well as, powerful scheduler with backfill and Jinja template language to design your DB queries for enter link description here.

Hope that is somewhat helpful. Here is also some nice article with feature comparison.

Upvotes: 5

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