Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!
Apache NiFi vs KSQL: What are the differences?
Apache NiFi: 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; KSQL: Open Source Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka. KSQL is an open source streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka. It provides a simple and completely interactive SQL interface for stream processing on Kafka; no need to write code in a programming language such as Java or Python. KSQL is open-source (Apache 2.0 licensed), distributed, scalable, reliable, and real-time.
Apache NiFi and KSQL belong to "Stream Processing" category of the tech stack.
KSQL is an open source tool with 2.37K GitHub stars and 493 GitHub forks. Here's a link to KSQL's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Apache NiFi
- Visual Data Flows using Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs)15
- Free (Open Source)8
- Simple-to-use7
- Reactive with back-pressure5
- Scalable horizontally as well as vertically5
- Fast prototyping4
- Bi-directional channels3
- Data provenance2
- Built-in graphical user interface2
- End-to-end security between all nodes2
- Can handle messages up to gigabytes in size2
- Hbase support1
- Kudu support1
- Hive support1
- Slack integration1
- Support for custom Processor in Java1
- Lot of articles1
- Lots of documentation1
Pros of KSQL
- Streamprocessing on Kafka3
- SQL syntax with windowing functions over streams2
- Easy transistion for SQL Devs0
Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions
Cons of Apache NiFi
- HA support is not full fledge2
- Memory-intensive2