Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/apache/airflow/vs/fivetran/great_expectations
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/apache/airflow/vs/fivetran/great_expectations.md
Description: airflow and great_expectations share 21 technologies: Flask, azure-storage-blob, psycopg2-binary, snowflake-sqlalchemy, teradatasqlalchemy, pyarrow, oracledb, Trino, gcsfs, pyhive, pymysql, pyodbc, SQLAlchemy, azure-identity, azure-keyvault-secrets, cryptography, jinja2, Pydantic, jsonschema, marshmallow, and boto3. Both are written in Python.

# airflow vs great_expectations

airflow and great_expectations share 21 technologies: Flask, azure-storage-blob, psycopg2-binary, snowflake-sqlalchemy, teradatasqlalchemy, pyarrow, oracledb, Trino, gcsfs, pyhive, pymysql, pyodbc, SQLAlchemy, azure-identity, azure-keyvault-secrets, cryptography, jinja2, Pydantic, jsonschema, marshmallow, and boto3. Both are written in Python.

- [apache/airflow](https://seerepo.com/r/apache/airflow): Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
- [fivetran/great_expectations](https://seerepo.com/r/fivetran/great_expectations): Always know what to expect from your data.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Flask, azure-storage-blob, psycopg2-binary, snowflake-sqlalchemy, teradatasqlalchemy, pyarrow, oracledb, Trino, gcsfs, pyhive, pymysql, pyodbc, SQLAlchemy, azure-identity, azure-keyvault-secrets, cryptography, jinja2, Pydantic, jsonschema, marshmallow, boto3
- Only in airflow: FastAPI, aiosqlite, apache-airflow-providers-common-compat, apache-airflow-providers-common-sql, apache-airflow-providers-postgres, azure-cosmos, azure-datalake-store, azure-kusto-data, azure-mgmt-cosmosdb, azure-mgmt-datalake-store, azure-mgmt-storage, azure-search-documents, azure-servicebus, azure-storage-file-datalake, azure-storage-file-share, azure-synapse-artifacts, azure-synapse-spark, cassandra-driver, confluent-kafka, gremlinpython, ibm-db, ibm-db-sa, impyla, influxdb3-python, pgvector, presto-python-client, psycopg, pymongo, pyodps, pyspark-client, python-arango, pyvespa, Redis, sqlalchemy-drill, weaviate-client, Celery, pyiceberg, DuckDB, fastavro, hdfs, kylinpy, pinecone, pymssql, ydb, adbc-driver-manager, adlfs, clickhouse-connect, gcloud-aio-bigquery, gcloud-aio-storage, hmsclient, ibmcloudant, jaydebeapi, Neo4j, pinotdb, pydruid, pyexasol, SQLite, teradatasql, vertica-python, yandex-query-client, ydb-dbapi, Google, apache-airflow-core, flask-appbuilder, asgiref, cadwyn, AIOHTTP, uvicorn, werkzeug, a2wsgi, Apache, Vite, React, react-router-dom, Rich, rich-click, flask-sqlalchemy, alembic, sqlglot, flask-session, google-auth, microsoft-kiota-authentication-azure, msal-extensions, pyspnego, python-keycloak, spnego, pyjwt, flask-login, gcloud-aio-auth, hvac, keyring, google-auth-httplib2, google-auth-oauthlib, azure-ai-projects, pydantic-ai-slim, cohere, nbconvert, aiosmtplib, beautifulsoup4, icalendar, sendgrid, flask-wtf, wtforms, msgspec, airflow-sdk-jul, airflow-sdk-log4j2, airflow-sdk-slf4j, apache-airflow-providers-cncf-kubernetes, apache-airflow-providers-ssh, apache-airflow-providers-standard, azure-batch, azure-mgmt-compute, azure-mgmt-containerinstance, azure-mgmt-containerregistry, azure-mgmt-datafactory, azure-mgmt-resource, Flower, OpenTelemetry, org.apache.airflow:airflow-sdk, python-jenkins, structlog, kubernetes, psutil, kubernetes-asyncio, python-on-whales, Datadog, docker, Alibaba Cloud, colorlog, org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api, org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core, org.slf4j:slf4j-api, next-themes, Chakra UI, React Hook Form, yaml
- Only in great_expectations: feather-format, Postgres, clickhouse-sqlalchemy, pandas-gbq, pyathena, pyspark, pydata-sphinx-theme, altair, matplotlib, datasets, TensorFlow, prophet, scikit-learn, langid, myst-parser, openpyxl, pdf2image, pytesseract, xlrd, lxml, disposable-email-domains, mistune, great-expectations, barcodenumber

## Side by side

| | airflow | great_expectations |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 2,186,846 lines written, 4,688 code files | 366,832 lines written, 855 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.8% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Devin | 0.3% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and CodeRabbit |
| Activity | Last push November 10, 2026, 41,951 commits, 47,436 stars | Last push November 11, 2026, 12,249 commits, 11,925 stars |
| Tests | 4,994 test files. 52.8% of its code files have a test that imports them | 582 test files. 2.1% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, airflow or great_expectations?

airflow, with 2,186,846 lines written; great_expectations has 366,832.

The proof: [apache/airflow's code at commit 2b59699](https://github.com/apache/airflow/tree/2b59699b0fe9683c418806a334b47077513bde5a)

### Which has more GitHub stars, airflow or great_expectations?

airflow, with 47,436 stars; great_expectations has 11,925.

The proof: [apache/airflow on GitHub](https://github.com/apache/airflow)

### Which has more tests, airflow or great_expectations?

airflow, with 4,994 test files; great_expectations has 582.

The proof: [apache/airflow's code at commit 2b59699](https://github.com/apache/airflow/tree/2b59699b0fe9683c418806a334b47077513bde5a)

### Which was updated more recently, airflow or great_expectations?

great_expectations: its last push was on November 11, 2026, and airflow's on November 10, 2026.

The proof: [fivetran/great_expectations's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/fivetran/great_expectations/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, airflow or great_expectations?

airflow: an AI signed 0.8% of its commits, with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Devin; in great_expectations, 0.3%.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in apache/airflow](https://seerepo.com/r/apache/airflow/ai)

## Sources

- apache/airflow: Read on November 10, 2026, at commit 2b59699 (https://github.com/apache/airflow/tree/2b59699b0fe9683c418806a334b47077513bde5a)
- fivetran/great_expectations: Read on November 11, 2026, at commit a3e335b (https://github.com/fivetran/great_expectations/tree/a3e335bf4254f77ebd92e526c0e81d6c5caa936b)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.