Apache Airflow vs GNU Make

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.

GNU Make is a developer-utilities tool that build automation tool that uses makefiles to define dependency-based build rules and tasks. It is open source software.