We performed a comparison between Apache NiFi and AWS Lambda based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Compute Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Visually, this is a good product."
"Apache NiFi is user-friendly. Its most valuable features for handling large volumes of data include its multitude of integrated endpoints and clients and the ability to create cron jobs to run tasks at regular intervals."
"The most valuable features of this solution are ease of use and implementation."
"It's an automated flow, where you can build a flow from source to destination, then do the transformation in between."
"The most valuable feature has been the range of clients and the range of connectors that we could use."
"We can integrate the tool with other applications easily."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The initial setup is very easy. I would rate my experience with the initial setup a ten out of ten, where one point is difficult, and ten points are easy."
"One of the most valuable features of AWS Lambda is the performance. Lambda is very technical and has very high performance, as well as good real-time performance."
"Technical support has been great in general."
"I like the pay-for-what-you-use feature. This is the main reason why we use AWS Lambda. I don't have to manage servers; I just have to configure Lambda and expose it to an API gateway."
"The ease and speed of developing the services using any available language is the most valuable feature."
"Lambda makes the administration of all our services related to Amazon really easy."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the API Gateway."
"The solution offers good performance."
"We have no issues with the technical support."
"I think the UI interface needs to be more user-friendly."
"The use case templates could be more precise to typical business needs."
"There is room for improvement in integration with SSO. For example, NiFi does not have any integration with SSO. And if I want to give some kind of rollback access control across the organization. That is not possible."
"The overall stability of this solution could be improved. In a future release, we would like to have access to more features that could be used in a parallel way. This would provide more freedom with processing."
"There are some claims that NiFi is cloud-native but we have tested it, and it's not."
"The tool should incorporate more tutorials for advanced use cases. It has tutorials for simple use cases."
"There should be a better way to integrate a development environment with local tools."
"More features must be added to the product."
"We need to invest time in learning the tool's language variant. We have encountered instances of downtime as well."
"Its performance can be improved. There should also be more dynamic security permissions."
"It could be cheaper."
"I wish to see better execution time in the next release."
"My opinion is that the integration could be improved in this solution. We have had some difficulties integrating the EC2 module, but we found a solution for that by ourselves."
"If you are setting it up on hybrid solution, there is a lot of work that needs to go in."
"There is room for improvement in user-friendliness. When comparing this solution to others it is not as user-friendly."
"The setup was pretty complex because there were many steps. For me, it was complex because I was somewhat new at it. It could be easier for someone who has done it a bunch of times. I just found that it was a very dense user experience. There's a lot going on during setup."
Apache NiFi is ranked 8th in Compute Service with 11 reviews while AWS Lambda is ranked 1st in Compute Service with 70 reviews. Apache NiFi is rated 7.8, while AWS Lambda is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Apache NiFi writes "Allows the creation and use of custom functions to achieve desired functionality but limitation in handling monthly transactions due to a lack of partitioning for dates". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AWS Lambda writes "An easily scalable solution with a variety of use cases and valuable event-based triggers". Apache NiFi is most compared with Google Cloud Dataflow, Apache Spark, Azure Stream Analytics, Apache Storm and AWS Fargate, whereas AWS Lambda is most compared with AWS Batch, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Apache Spark, AWS Fargate and Google Cloud Dataflow. See our AWS Lambda vs. Apache NiFi report.
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