Capability | Airflow | Mage Pro |
---|---|---|
Visual pipeline UI | ❌ Code-only (Jinja, Python) | ✅ Drag-and-drop editor |
Built-in lineage | ⚠️ Plugin-based (e.g., OpenLineage) | ✅ Native, auto-generated |
AI assistance | ❌ | ✅ Generate, fix, and explain code with AI Sidekick |
Multi-language support | ⚠️ Python only by default | ✅ SQL, Python, streaming, APIs |
Data integration pipelines | ⚠️ Custom Python or 3rd-party plugins | ✅ Native connectors for databases, files, APIs |
SQL block support | ⚠️ SQLOperator runs raw strings only | ✅ dbt-style SQL blocks with ref() , preview, and test support |
Incremental modeling | ❌ (requires custom logic) | ✅ Native in SQL block config |
Environment isolation | ⚠️ Requires Airflow deployments per team | ✅ Per-workspace configs, secrets, variables |
Git integration | ⚠️ Manual DAG sync | ✅ Git-backed version control and CI/CD |
Scheduling & triggers | ✅ Cron + sensors | ✅ Cron, events, file triggers, webhooks |
Secrets management | ⚠️ Requires Vault or plugins | ✅ Built-in across workspaces and pipelines |
RBAC & SSO | ⚠️ Manual plugins / external auth | ✅ Built-in, enterprise-ready |
Observability & logging | ⚠️ Requires Prometheus, Grafana, etc. | ✅ Native UI for logs, metrics, traces |
Scalability | ⚠️ Manual tuning of workers and queues | ✅ Auto-scaled executors on K8s or ECS |
Streaming support | ❌ | ✅ Kafka, CDC, real-time ingestion |
Data previews & interactive runs | ❌ | ✅ Preview data at every step |
Team collaboration | ⚠️ Airflow not multi-tenant | ✅ Workspaces, permissions, activity logs |
PythonOperator
, BashOperator
, SQLOperator
, etc.PythonOperator
→ Python blockSQLOperator
→ SQL blockBranchOperator
→ Dynamic blockSensor
→ Trigger block@dag
, @task
, or PythonOperator
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