What Is Google Dataflow?

Google Cloud Dataflow is a fully managed service for executing Apache Beam pipelines within the Google Cloud Platform ecosystem.

How does Google dataflow work?

Dataflow uses your pipeline code to create an execution graph that represents your pipeline's PCollection s and transforms, and optimizes the graph for the most efficient performance and resource usage. Dataflow also automatically optimizes potentially costly operations, such as data aggregations.

What is Google dataflow used for?

Google Cloud Dataflow is a cloud-based data processing service for both batch and real-time data streaming applications. It enables developers to set up processing pipelines for integrating, preparing and analyzing large data sets, such as those found in Web analytics or big data analytics applications.