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Google Cloud Dataflow

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4.2 out of 5 stars

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Jordy H.
JH
Data Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Way to go for moving your data from one place to another"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Dataflow?

Dataflow can easily autoscale to multiple instances if it is handling a lot of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Dataflow?

It is sometimes difficult to debug a problem in your pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

V. R.
VR
Asst mgr
Computer Software
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Tool for cloud based processing of data"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Dataflow?

It's a PaaS-based offering that is based on open sourcing. It can also be used to process streams of data and batch data.

It only takes a few minutes to hours to move a large amount of data to users database Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Dataflow?

the initial deployment was risky and faced few issues

A great tool to move a large amount of data, but poor documentation made implementation a problematic experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vishnu K.
VK
Software Consultant
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Good tool to run Bigdata pipelines"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Dataflow?

In the backend, the tool uses the Apache Beam framework. Pipelines can be started locally using DirectRunner and easily in Google cloud machines. Going through logs and debugging is good. Tracking the status of pipeline jobs is excellent, and easy to look at the debug logs from each step using the UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Dataflow?

Find it difficult to start for beginners. But with more practice and experience, Dataflow is a good tool for both streaming and batch data pipelines. Documentation could be a little better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CG
Software Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Google Cloud Dataflow is a great option for both batch and streaming data pipelines at scale"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Dataflow?

Dataflow is based on Apache Beam. Its library is fairly easy to understand. You can get up and running fairly quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Dataflow?

There is nothing I dislike about Dataflow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail
CR
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Reviewing Google Cloud dataflow"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Dataflow?

Cloud Dataflow offers serverless processing for handling Big Data. It can crunch millions of records in any form event based or batch and has excellent throughput. With the different sdks it provides like Python, Java etc. it is very developer friendly as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Dataflow?

Nothing really. There need to be some added features to the Python sdk like in Java, but that will happen as the product grows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Airlines/Aviation
CA
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great tool to build both Batch and Stream BigData pipelines"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Dataflow?

This tool based on well known Apache Beam framework and can be locally or on internal GCP runner in GCP cloud. Has a great set of instruments to work with Stream data and Batch data in very fast manner.

It is very easy to run pipeline and track progress of the job. Much more powerful and easy than Dataproc with native Spark. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Dataflow?

Not so clear documentation. You should practice a lot with that to pick up configuration for your particular case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Cheap ETL That Scales Well and Enables Future Transition from Batch to Streaming"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Dataflow?

Google Dataflow, based on Apache Beam, is an efficient and cheap way to ETL data into Google's Bigquery using Java or Python. Loading data can be done in batch or streaming which is nice as you can meet your current batch needs and leave the door open for future streaming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Dataflow?

The Python version lags pretty far behind Java and there is quite a bit of a learning curve. I wouldn't consider it "turnkey". Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet
AI
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Full Stack Engineer"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Dataflow?

The ability to automate moving your data to different Google storage services. Seeing you data transfer in real time is great for communicating with clients Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Dataflow?

I would like to cloud dataflow having its own api that could be hit either from a 3rd party app or Google Cloud Functions. If those abilities are already available then, they should be better documented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Jerish Joseph
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"my review Awesome experience"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Dataflow?

it is easy to develop in eclipse and run from local machine or on cloud Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Dataflow?

during test, it used only one node many times and it was frustrating Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KK
Data Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Long wait-time"
What do you like best about Google Cloud Dataflow?

It's hyper-scalable platform to do ETL for my workflow and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Dataflow?

It's takes time to spin up virtual machines for Google Dataflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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