Apache NiFi Reviews

Name: Apache NiFi
Brand: Apache
Rating: 3.9 (13 reviews)

3.9 out of 5

13 reviews
92% willing to recommend

342 followers

What is Apache NiFi?

Apache NiFi is 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.

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Apache NiFi is the #8 ranked solution in top Compute Service solutions. PeerSpot users give Apache NiFi an average rating of 7.8 out of 10. Apache NiFi is most commonly compared to Apache Spark: Apache NiFi vs Apache Spark. Apache NiFi is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 67% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 16% of all views.

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Featured Apache NiFi reviews

Danuphan Suwanwong

Head of Data Engineering and AI Engineering at Coraline

The visual workflow aspect of Apache NiFi is an invaluable feature as it operates on a no-code platform that allows for easy drag-and-drop pipeline construction. Compared to Airflow ( /products/apache-airflow-reviews ), which requires programming before visual representation, Apache NiFi offers clarity in pipeline activities. This feature greatly aids in understanding what the pipeline is doing.

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Bharghava Raghavendra Beesa

Senior Developer at Infosys

There are some areas for improvement, particularly with record-level tasks that take a bit of time. The quality of JSON data processing could be improved, as JSON workloads require manual conversions without a specific process. Enhancing features related to alerting would be helpful, including mobile alerts for pipeline issues. Integration with mobile devices for error alerts would simplify information delivery.

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Teodor Muraru

Developer at Emag

I tried to install the tool on my work laptop, and while it worked initially, it started to run slowly after some time. The department that handles the company's databases uses Apache NiFi on proper servers. I tried using it on my laptop to see if it worked, but it ran very slowly and consumed many resources from my machine.

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Apache NiFi mindshare

As of May 2025, the mindshare of Apache NiFi in the Compute Service category stands at 8.4%, up from 7.5% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PeerResearch reports based on Apache NiFi reviews

Type	Title	Date
Category	Compute Service	May 20, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	May 20, 2025	Download
Comparison	Apache NiFi vs AWS Lambda	May 20, 2025	Download
Comparison	Apache NiFi vs AWS Fargate	May 20, 2025	Download
Comparison	Apache NiFi vs Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling	May 20, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Apache Spark	4.2	11.3%	90%	66 interviews Add to research
AWS Lambda	4.3	21.3%	94%	88 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"It is highly effective for handling real-time data by working with APIs for immediate and continuous data extraction."
"Apache NiFi is user-friendly. Its most valuable features for handling large volumes of data include its multitude of integrated endpoints and clients and the ability to create cron jobs to run tasks at regular intervals."
"The initial setup is very easy."

Room for Improvement

"The quality of JSON data processing could be improved, as JSON workloads require manual conversions without a specific process."
"The tool should incorporate more tutorials for advanced use cases. It has tutorials for simple use cases."
"There is room for improvement in integration with SSO. For example, NiFi does not have any integration with SSO. And if I want to give some kind of rollback access control across the organization. That is not possible."