Advances, Systems and Applications
Table 1 Differences between existing workflow management systems
Name | “Multiple instances without a priori run-time knowledge” | Distributed | Workflow management system? |
|---|---|---|---|
Pegasus | Requires sub-workflows | Yes | Yes |
Airflow | Requires sub-workflows | Yes | Yes |
Swift/T | Limits parallelism | Yes | Mostly |
Chiron | Supported, but no published version for user-guided loops | Yes | Yes |
Argo | No intermediate files | Yes | Yes |
No loop termination based on file existence | |||
Taverna | Supported | No | Yes |
Kepler | Supported | No | Yes |
Hadoop | Supported | Yes | No |
Spark | Supported | Yes | No |