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Apache Airflow vs Dagster

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Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow is an open-source workflow orchestration platform for programmatically authoring, scheduling, and monitoring data pipelines. Workflows are defined as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) in Python, with a web-based UI for monitoring and management. Airflow is widely used for ETL/ELT workflows, ML pipelines, and data engineering tasks.

Developer UtilitiesFreeOpen Source
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Dagster

Dagster Data orchestration platform for building, testing, and deploying data pipelines with software-defined assets.

Developer UtilitiesFreeOpen Source

Quick Facts

Apache Airflow

CompanyApache Software Foundation
Year Launched2015
Pricing ModelFree
Open SourceYes
CategoryDeveloper Utilities
Platforms

Dagster

CompanyDagster Labs
Year Launched2019
Pricing ModelFree
Open SourceYes
CategoryDeveloper Utilities
PlatformsWeb

Pricing

Apache Airflow

Free

Dagster

Free

Open Source: Free/One-time

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