How does Catalyst compare to Apache Airflow for AI agent workflows?

Catalyst is purpose-built for production AI-native agentic durable execution workflows, unlike Apache Airflow which targets scheduled batch data pipelines. It retains critical workflow state across failures and extended probabilistic agent pauses, supports both deterministic and probabilistic work, and is built on CNCF’s Dapr for cloud-native agent deployments. As of the verification date, public Airflow documentation does not list native support for long-running non-deterministic agent workflows; confirm with the vendor.