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Apache NiFi

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Followers8.3K

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Apache NiFi vs Logstash: What are the differences?

Developers describe Apache NiFi as "A reliable system to process and distribute data". An easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data. It supports powerful and scalable directed graphs of data routing, transformation, and system mediation logic. On the other hand, Logstash is detailed as "Collect, Parse, & Enrich Data". Logstash is a tool for managing events and logs. You can use it to collect logs, parse them, and store them for later use (like, for searching). If you store them in Elasticsearch, you can view and analyze them with Kibana.

Apache NiFi can be classified as a tool in the "Stream Processing" category, while Logstash is grouped under "Log Management".

Logstash is an open source tool with 10.3K GitHub stars and 2.78K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Logstash's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Apache NiFi

Pros of Logstash

17
Visual Data Flows using Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs)
8
Free (Open Source)
7
Simple-to-use
5
Scalable horizontally as well as vertically
5
Reactive with back-pressure
4
Fast prototyping
3
Bi-directional channels
3
End-to-end security between all nodes
2
Built-in graphical user interface
2
Can handle messages up to gigabytes in size
2
Data provenance
1
Lots of documentation
1
Hbase support
1
Support for custom Processor in Java
1
Hive support
1
Kudu support
1
Slack integration
1
Lot of articles

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Free
18
Easy but powerful filtering
12
Scalable
2
Kibana provides machine learning based analytics to log
1
Great to meet GDPR goals
1
Well Documented

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Cons of Apache NiFi

Cons of Logstash

2
HA support is not full fledge
2
Memory-intensive
1
Kkk

4
Memory-intensive
1
Documentation difficult to use

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What are some alternatives to Apache NiFi and Logstash?

Kafka

Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a unique design.

Apache Storm

Apache Storm is a free and open source distributed realtime computation system. Storm makes it easy to reliably process unbounded streams of data, doing for realtime processing what Hadoop did for batch processing. Storm has many use cases: realtime analytics, online machine learning, continuous computation, distributed RPC, ETL, and more. Storm is fast: a benchmark clocked it at over a million tuples processed per second per node. It is scalable, fault-tolerant, guarantees your data will be processed, and is easy to set up and operate.

Apache Camel

An open source Java framework that focuses on making integration easier and more accessible to developers.

Apache Spark

Spark is a fast and general processing engine compatible with Hadoop data. It can run in Hadoop clusters through YARN or Spark's standalone mode, and it can process data in HDFS, HBase, Cassandra, Hive, and any Hadoop InputFormat. It is designed to perform both batch processing (similar to MapReduce) and new workloads like streaming, interactive queries, and machine learning.

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.

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Apache NiFi vs Logstash