It's time to move beyond airflow

Dagster vs Airflow

Dagster accelerates your data teams, unifies all of your Airflow instances, and simplifies your stack into a single control plane.

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Accelerate from pipelines to platforms

Modern data engineering requires a fresh approach

Fast local development and unit testing

Dagster brings modern software engineering practices to data orchestration with lightning-fast local development, and comprehensive unit-testing. Build, test, and debug your data pipelines on your laptop because data engineering is software engineering.

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Fast local development and unit testing
Low code data pipelines

You can build your pipelines using Dagster’s asset-oriented Python framework or a declarative YAML-based workflow. Build pipelines in minutes, not days, so you can spend time on what matters.

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Low code data pipelines
A sandbox for every pull request

Airflow wants you to test in production, but Dagster’s branch deployments mean you can spin up isolated environments that mirror production. Test your changes end-to-end in a complete sandbox before merging to main. 

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A sandbox for every pull request
Cloud native, multitenant architecture

Built for modern cloud environments, Dagster scales effortlessly to support your entire organization. Our multitenant design allows different teams to deploy and maintain their data assets independently within a unified platform.

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Cloud native, multitenant architecture
Any language, any technology

Why should your orchestrator dictate your technology choices? Dagster integrates seamlessly with your existing tools and languages. Whether using Python, SQL, Spark, or anything else, Dagster brings everything together in one unified view.

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Any language, any technology

Unify your Airflow clusters with Dagster

Skip the painful Airflow 3 rewrite and modernize your data platform in 3 easy steps

Migrate from Airflow to Dagster
1
Integrate

With just a few lines of code, you can observe and govern your Airflow DAGs from all your Airflow instances in a single location. Break down the data silos without changing a single line of Airflow code.

2
Build

Build new data pipelines with Dagster's modern developer experience, or add data quality checks to existing Airflow DAGs. All without touching the existing Airflow code.

3
Refine

With Dagster's rich observability and operational tooling, you'll no longer need several components of your stack. And as data pipelines are incrementally migrated from Airflow to Dagster, you can shut down your legacy Airflow instances.

Simplify and modernize your stack

Dagster goes well beyond Airflow and offers rich capabilities for data management

Data catalog
Data catalog

Dagster's data catalog lets technical stakeholders discover data assets and explore their lineage, operational state, and other metadata.

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Data quality
Data quality

You can incrementally add data quality checks to your existing Airflow DAGs, observe the health of your data pipelines, and make runtime decisions based on data quality.

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Cost management
Cost management

Dagster integrates a rich cost management suite, enabling both data platform owners and their stakeholders to manage their spend on data tools like Snowflake.

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Incremental migration
Incremental migration

Dagster provides tooling to incrementally migrate DAGs from legacy Airflow instances to modern Dagster code. We also provide professional services to migrate your DAGs for you.

Talk to an Airflow migration expert

See how to use Airlift to easily operate or migrate Airflow in Dagster.

  • View Airflow execution alongside your Dagster workflows
  • Turn existing Airflow DAGs into Dagster assets
  • Consolidate multiple Airflow instances together in one place

Turn your data engineers into rockstars

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