G2 Vendor Directory

Google Cloud Dataflow

by Google

44

Reviews

4.2

Star rating

#7

Rank in Event Stream Processing

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Features
  • Real-time Analytics
  • Insights
  • Real-Time Processing
  • Easy Management
  • Speed

Cons

  • Expensive
  • Cost Management
  • Installation Difficulty
  • Learning Difficulty

Traffic & LLM citations

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Losing to

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Key stats

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43

Small Business

2

Adoption by company size

SegmentShare of reviews
Small Business36.4%
Mid-Market31.8%
Enterprise31.8%

Quarterly history

QuarterReviewsStar rating
2025 Q115.0

Satisfaction ratings

Ease of Use8.3
Ease of Setup8.2
Quality of Support8.6
Meets Requirements9.1

What reviewers say

Cloud Dataflow - Best Events Streaming Platform

5.0

“Google Cloud Dataflow is extremely easy to use for processing stream of events. Building complex streaming pipelines is simple and effiicent with Dataflow. Offers real time monitoring of the streaming pipeline with important metrics such as Throughput, CPU and memory utilisation.”

Software Engineer

Build data streaming with gcp dataflow

4.5

“- using jyupter notebook to write code and not to worry about backend services. GCP Dataflow effortlessly manages big data tasks, unifying code with Apache Beam. It's a Google Cloud team player, excelling with services like BigQuery.”

Data Engineer

Dataflow solves the problem of ETL at scale with top tier observability

4.0

“Cloud dataflow allows you to have a daemon that performs ETL while providing top tier observability. Prior to this I was accustomed to long running jobs with poor observability, or low/no code tools that didnt allow me to configure tasks the way I wanted to using code. Dataflow ”

User