What is Luigi?
It is a Python module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs. It handles dependency resolution, workflow management, visualization etc. It also comes with Hadoop support built in.
Luigi is a tool in the Workflow Manager category of a tech stack.
Luigi is an open source tool with 17.9K GitHub stars and 2.4K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Luigi's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Luigi?
Companies
12 companies reportedly use Luigi in their tech stacks, including Affirm, platform, and 500px.
Developers
63 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Luigi.
Pros of Luigi
5
3
1
Luigi's Features
- dependency resolution
- workflow management
- visualization
Luigi Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Luigi?
Airflow
Use Airflow to author workflows as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of tasks. The Airflow scheduler executes your tasks on an array of workers while following the specified dependencies. Rich command lines utilities makes performing complex surgeries on DAGs a snap. The rich user interface makes it easy to visualize pipelines running in production, monitor progress and troubleshoot issues when needed.
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.