Key features

The following are the key features of Apache NiFi:

  • Guaranteed delivery: In the event of increased volume of data, power failures, and network and system failures in NiFi, it becomes necessary to have a robust guaranteed delivery of the data. NiFi ensures, within the dataflow system itself, the transactional communication between NiFi and the data where it is coming to the points to which it is delivered to.
  • Data buffering with back pressure and pressure release: In any dataflow, it may be possible that there are some issues with the systems involved; some might be down or some might be slow. In that case, data buffering becomes very essential to coping with the data coming into or going out of the dataflow.

NiFi supports the ...

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