I suppose the easiest way to explain differences is scope. I can most easily talk about Apache NiFi scope, which is, as I would put it, a tool and platform for getting data from here to there (our incubator proposal explains scope well [1]), both at the edge (ingestion) and at the core (transport). There are tools built in to track data and support more cases at the edge by supplying one's own services and processors. It also has a very operator-centric UI for building and maintaining flows.
The scope for Spark XD appears to be more of an application orchestration/integration framework (analytic glue). From my perspective, the UIs and programming interfaces are very programmer centric. It also has some overlap with Apache Falcon [2]. There is overlap with Spark XD and NiFi. Both do ingest (into a myriad of sinks). Both can do 'analysis', but I don't feel like the scope of NiFi is to be a general purpose analysis platform. But there certainly are lots of interesting things you can do with data while it goes from here. [1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/NiFiProposal [2] http://falcon.apache.org/ On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Joe Witt <joe.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > I will be happy to send along some diffs. Will put that together soon. > On Jun 18, 2015 6:12 PM, <estrada.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'd be interested in seeing a list of differences too! > > > > A > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > On Jun 18, 2015, at 6:01 PM, pmunis < > > patrick.mu...@newwave-technologies.com> wrote: > > > > > > Trying to figure out how apache nifi is different from spring XD > (flows)? > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > View this message in context: > > > http://apache-nifi-incubating-developer-list.39713.n7.nabble.com/Apache-NIFI-vs-Spring-XD-tp1963.html > > > Sent from the Apache NiFi (incubating) Developer List mailing list > > archive at Nabble.com. > > >
