--- title: Apache Beam Reviews meta\_title: 'Apache Beam Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 16 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Apache Beam works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.1 review\_count: 16 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Big Data url: https://www.g2.com/categories/big-data --- # Apache Beam Reviews & Product Details Apache Beam is an open source unified programming model designed to define and execute data processing pipelines, including ETL, batch and stream processing. * * * Seller [The Apache Software Foundation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/the-apache-software-foundation) Discussions [Apache Beam Community](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-beam/discuss) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-beam/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Databricks](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Databricks") Databricks 4.6/5(1,365) ](https://www.g2.com/products/databricks/reviews) [ ![Amazon EMR](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Amazon EMR") Amazon EMR 4.2/5(70) ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-emr/reviews) [ ![Azure Data Lake Store](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Azure Data Lake Store") Azure Data Lake Store 4.5/5(40) ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-data-lake-store/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-beam/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 16 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Praneet P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Praneet P.") PP Praneet P. Data Analyst (Deep Learning and Data Processing Engine) Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/30/2019 "Apache Beam Experience on Google Cloud Platform" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Beam? What I most like about Apache Beam is the ease of use when defining pipelines for ETL in both Batch and Streamline Processing. Being open-source software, Beam is one of the most powerful tools out there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Beam? It is a bit slower than Apache Flink as Beam is mainly classified in Graph Database tools while Flink is classified into Big Data Tools. Also, it doesn't provide any UI to monitor the job status while Flink does. Works pretty good for Small ETL Tasks in GCP rather than large tasks which involve a lot of streams processing. Flink is better if your use case has to deal with lot of streams at a time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Beam: I would suggest to first go through the docs of Apache Beam, as there is good content in there along with the blogs on Apache Beam. Explore many other ETL tools like Apache Spark, Flink, Storm, Samza before considering Beam as each of them has their own use case benefits and decide which one fits you the most. I have mostly used Beam in Google Cloud Platform DataFlow for transforming and saving some changes from database using Change Data Capture into Apache Druid and found that Beam is pretty good for small tasks rather than for large ones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Beam solving and how is that benefiting you? I've used Beam while writing some ETL for batch processing in Cloud DataFlow to transform the data in a timely manner and store them as features to some Time Series Database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/30/2019 "Big Data " 3.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Beam? Apache beam have good feature "Pardo" and "dofn" which is help to write customized code and make powerful parallel operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Beam? Apache beam have only Jdbc connectivity and after the write operation again you can not open new pcollection . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Beam solving and how is that benefiting you? Apache beam is good for event stream data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") CI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/30/2019 "Good technology " 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Beam? fast implementation of all methods to try change data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Beam? Difficult to use and ehat exactly you need to do Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Beam solving and how is that benefiting you? Clean data and save it on bigquery (gogle cloud) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/11/2019 "Streaming made possible and easier with Beam" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Beam? How it makes it easier for us to implement the entire dataflow pipeline. We are using it from Streaming and Batch Dataflow services and it has been very reliable and eay to develop. There are enough examples and documentation to get you going. Works really well with ingestion into BQ on GCP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Beam? Some edge use-cases are hard to implement and some of the instances we required for the data pipeline were not yet supported. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Beam solving and how is that benefiting you? Pulling data to our Data Warehouse from third party APIs is vital for the business and through apache beam, the code we developed has become a lot more compact and easy to maintain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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