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Attribute Prefect Apache Airflow
Name Prefect Apache Airflow
Description A modern data workflow management system. Apache Airflow is a platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows.
Source code https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect https://github.com/apache/airflow
Website https://www.prefect.io/ https://airflow.apache.org/
License MIT Apache license 2.0
Year created 2018 2014
Company Prefect Airbnb, Apache
Use cases Data Workflow Management, ETL Workflow scheduling
Language support python python
Has cron schedule support
yes
yes
Has event based trigger support
yes
yes
Has api support
yes
yes
Has access controls
yes
yes
Has workflow versioning
yes
no
Has workflow configuration support
yes
yes
Has audit logs
yes
yes
Has cost tracking
no
no
Has data source connection support
yes
yes