Openflow faces competition from Databricks’ Lakeflow, which also has the capability to ingest, transform, and integrate data, including unstructured and streaming data.
Lakeflow, which connects to Databricks’ Data Intelligence platform, also gets governance capabilities via the data analytics platform provider’s Unity Catalog, said Bradley Shimmin, lead for the data and analytics practice at The Futurum Group.
Ability to build customer connectors
Although Openflow is a managed service, enterprises and data professionals will be able to build their own customer connectors within the service, according to Snowflake’s Kleinerman.
“Within this managed service, developers and data engineers can use hundreds of first-party Openflow processors (NiFi building blocks) to build custom connectors in minutes,” Kleinerman said, adding that developers can also use the Apache NiFi SDK to build custom processors and deploy them in Openflow.
