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DolphinScheduler

About DolphinScheduler

DolphinScheduler is a distributed and extensible open-source workflow orchestration platform with DAG visual interfaces. It supports cross-project and cross-workflow task dependencies. It uses a decentralized multi-masters/workers design. It supports data backfill and workflow version control.

Used for

Managing cross-project and cross-workflow task dependencies
Killing, pausing and resuming task operations
Executing another workflow as a sub-process task node
Running millions of data tasks with high concurrency, high throughput, and low latency

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How to evaluate Data Integration & ETL

This is how the CIOPages Research Team evaluates this category. It is not an assessment of DolphinScheduler. It comes from our Data Integration & ETL/ELT buyer guide.

25%

Connector Breadth & Reliability

Coverage of your actual sources (SaaS apps, databases, files, events), depth of each connector (full vs. partial schemas, history), automated schema-drift handling, custom-connector SDK, and who maintains connectors when an upstream API changes

20%

Transformation Model & Engineering Workflow

ELT (in-warehouse SQL/dbt) vs. ETL (engine-side) vs. visual push-down; version control, testing, CI/CD, and lineage; reusability and modularity of models; and fit with your team’s SQL-vs-Python-vs-low-code balance

20%

Real-Time, CDC & Streaming

Log-based change-data-capture, achievable freshness, replication from operational databases, incremental-load handling, schema-evolution on streams, exactly-once semantics, and reverse-ETL/activation back to operational systems

15%

Governance, Lineage & Data Quality

Column-level lineage across the pipeline, in-line data-quality and validation, catalog/metadata integration, masking and PII handling, audit trails, and master-data or data-contract support for regulated environments

10%

Deployment, Security & Sovereignty

SaaS vs. self-hosted vs. hybrid/customer-VPC, where data and credentials reside, SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / HIPAA posture, private networking and BYO-cloud options, RBAC/SSO, and open-source vs. proprietary lock-in

10%

Cost Model & Predictability

Pricing unit (rows/MAR, capacity, credits, compute-hours, per-connector, per-seat), how cost behaves as volume and source count grow, warehouse-compute cost the tool pushes onto you, and whether spend is forecastable against your data growth

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Quick Facts

dolphinscheduler.apache.org

CategoryData & Analytics

SubcategoryData Integration & ETL

PricingOpen source

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