--- 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 $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-beam/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Databricks](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Databricks") Databricks 4.6/5(1,364) ](https://www.g2.com/products/databricks/reviews) [ ![Amazon EMR](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Amazon EMR") Amazon EMR 4.2/5(70) ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-emr/reviews) [ ![Azure Data Lake Store](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Azure Data Lake Store") Azure Data Lake Store 4.5/5(40) ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-data-lake-store/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-beam/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 16 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Marketing and Advertising](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Marketing and Advertising") UM Verified User in Marketing and Advertising Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/12/2023 "Batch and strEAM processing with Beam!" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Beam? Beam is awesome. Both Batch and Stream processing handled via the same semantics/code. Just switch out your IOs, ex: database or files for batch, or a message queue for streaming use cases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Beam? People sometimes have trouble learning. I wish it was easier for people Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Beam solving and how is that benefiting you? We use Beam to handle most of our data processing needs. Both Batch and Stream use cases, and across our clouds and with a bunch of inputs and outputs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Automotive](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Automotive") CA Verified User in Automotive Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/18/2020 "Experience with Apache Beam ---\> So far so Good." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Beam? Liked the way Beam provides abstraction for the complex distributed paradigm using pCollection and Transforms etc. Also its unified approach to deal with both Batch and Stream processing is unique and efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Beam? At the time of doing development , i found doing Join operation was not that simple and we had to use coGroupByKey for that which was a bit confusing for us. May be providing abstraction as simple join operation would help the users community. May be the developer community might have already provided that option but it was not there when we were doing our use case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Beam solving and how is that benefiting you? We have been using Beam for a batch data processing with Source as Google Cloud Storage and Destination is Big Query. We found it very efficient as we did various tranformations on the fly as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Amazon C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Amazon C.") AC Amazon C. Human Resources Manager Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/21/2020 "Excellent parallel processing experience" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Beam? I have used Apache Beam to design my pipeline on Google cloud platform. My experience was seamless. I have designed for both batch and streaming data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Beam? Lack of available courses on apache beam which can help newbies to learn Beam Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Beam: I could easily recommend anyone to use Apache Beam for its simplicity and detailed documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Beam solving and how is that benefiting you? I have used windowing technique to accommodate late dat within my pipeline which was a brilliant task. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") UT Verified User in Telecommunications Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/25/2020 "Great choice for implementing complex and portable data pipelines." 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Beam? In terms of capabilities and generality, I think Apache Beam is currently the most advanced and most flexible framework for designing and implementing modern data-intensive applications. Perfectly able to specify both batch and streaming computations, plus in terms of streaming capabilities, it offers really a lot! It takes some time to get comfortable with the APIs, but after that is goes pretty smoothly. Finally the support for various execution engine thanks to the "runner" abstraction makes it a great choice when portability across different platforms either on premise or in the Cloud becomes a factor. Definitely recommended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Beam? Currently the APIs are not exactly super friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Beam: Definitely recommended for modern data pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Beam solving and how is that benefiting you? Implementing scalable ETL pipelines running on the Cloud. Implementing business triggers based on a high workload of incoming events. 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") CI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/16/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Easy to implement and plenty of example to follow" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Beam? Frequently update and supports multiple language Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Beam? More tedious in debugging the application code. Also, not very informative error logs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Beam: Do more research before you get started to see if this is a suitable product for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Beam solving and how is that benefiting you? Creating a pipeline for collecting data from IOT devices to analyse the insights provided by them. The data are health care data and navigation data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Dhavala A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dhavala A.") DA Dhavala A. Software Developer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/30/2019 "Data processing pipelines made easy" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Beam? With Apache beam, data processing pipelines are made really easy. We've been using this over the past 3 months and found it really successful especially for the ETL process of data we produce. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Beam? It is good for smaller processes, but not advisable for large streamline processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Beam: Just use it, it is worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Beam solving and how is that benefiting you? We do ETL and producing features in ML. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") UR Verified User in Retail Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/30/2019 "Great Streaming Data Processing Workflow Engine" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Beam? It's an open-source workflow engine that lets you code your logic of data processing workflow. It allows you to process your data based on batch and streams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Beam? You should learn the basic function of your workflow using Java. So, it takes time (depends on your learning curve) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Beam: it's a great streaming data processing workflow engine that you could customize your own logic to your workflow engine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Beam solving and how is that benefiting you? streaming data from Apache Kafka to BigQuery with implement several additional logic (customized from google dataflow) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ole D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ole D.") OD Ole D. CTO & Co-founder Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/16/2019 "Scalable analytics" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Beam? The SDKs are good and easy to use. It's amazing how fast you get something up and running. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Beam? Not yet support for python3 and still there are some benefits to using JAVA and not really a fan of JAVA Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Beam: Just jump right into it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Beam solving and how is that benefiting you? Streaming high volumes of data from APIs/message queue into an datastore adding things like session\_id on the way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in E-Learning](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in E-Learning") CE Verified User in E-Learning Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/10/2018 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Simplified big data " 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Beam? Supported by google. Is a solution that has everything, many systems can handle both batch and streaming, but they often do so via separate APIs. Beam focus on capturing properties of your data and your logic, instead of letting details. The project uses the correct programming model for streaming and batch data processing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Beam? capabilities will not always be exactly the same across different Beam runners at a given point in time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Beam: You should try beam if you are starting a new data project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Beam solving and how is that benefiting you? Big data, data science Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. 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