rudderstack-docs VS nodejs-bigquery

RudderStack is an open-source Customer Data Pipeline that allows you to track and send real-time events from your web, mobile, and server-side sources to your entire customer data stack. Our primary repository - rudder-server - is open-sourced on GitHub.

This post will explain how your customer data pipeline can help improve your data privacy and how to ensure your data privacy with RudderStack.

However, limitations to traditional CDPs, especially around connecting to best-of-breed customer tooling and exposing data for use across an organization have driven a new generation of non-CDPs. Solutions like Snowplow's (website, GitHub) data delivery platform and RudderStack's (website, GitHub) customer data platform for developers ingest data from a multitude of sources, apply in-stream transformations, and route data to your data warehouse, like Snowplow, or your warehouse plus your preferred customer tooling destinations for activation, like RudderStack.

In fact, developers have already started contributing to our documentation. Recently, Benedikt from the Userlist team created the docs for the Userlist destination for RudderStack (see the pull request here). They also built the Userlist integration, submitted a pull request, and it is now live on our platform! This is the beauty of open source!

As a part of our SDK roadmap at RudderStack, we wanted to develop a Flutter SDK. Our existing SDKs include features such as storing event details and persisting user details on the database, and much more. However, these features are already implemented in our Android and iOS SDKs.

To load Stripe data into Postgres, you can use platforms such as Stitch Data and Rudderstack. In this guide, we will use Stitch Data because it is a cheap and a fast solution.

RudderStack can be thought of as an open-source combination of Segment + Fivetran + Hightouch. It's an all-in-one customer data pipeline. It can capture event data from your digital products and send it to your data warehouse and other tools with its Event Stream feature. It uses the Cloud Extract feature to aggregate and correlate non-event data with event data in the data warehouse. And finally, to get data out of the data warehouse, it has a reverse ELT feature known as Warehouse Actions. Also, its source code is publicly available on GitHub, so you can choose to self-host or use RudderStack Cloud for a fee (but you can get started for free).

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If you are interested in learning more about how to get your data from your data sources into tools like Google BigQuery and other data warehouse solutions in real-time, you should explore the Customer Data Infrastructure tools like RudderStack.

The third -- and the best -- alternative is to use an open-source Customer Data Infrastructure tool like RudderStack. Not only do they provide a client-side SDK to capture your events, but you also get the flexibility to store the events wherever you want.

If you've ever wondered what it's like to manage a BigQuery instance at Reddit scale, know that it's exactly like smaller systems just with much, much bigger numbers in the logs. Database management fundamentals are eerily similar regardless of scale or platform; BigQuery handles just about anything we throw at it, and we do indeed throw it the whole book. Our BigQuery platform is more than 100 petabytes of data that supports data science, machine learning, and analytics workloads that drive experiments, analytics, advertising, revenue, safety, and more. As Reddit grew, so did the workload velocity and complexity within BigQuery and thus the need for more elegant and fine-tuned workload management.

Now I know I've got some data I could use, I now need to find a platform that I can use to analyse the data coming from the Forem API. I did consider some other pieces of software, such as Google BigQuery (with looker studio) and ElasticSearch (with Kibana), I ultimately went with OpenSearch which is essentially a forked version of ElasticSearch maintained by AWS. The main reasons are that I could host it locally for free (unlike BigQuery). I do have some prior experience with both elastic (back when it was called ELK) and OpenSearch, but my work with OpenSearch was far more recent, so I decided to go with that.

Bigquery as our data warehouse

Google BigQuery

You build a data integration between all the ad service providers (e.g. Google Ads, Facebook Ads, etc.), ingesting data from those APIs and storing it in your BigQuery data warehouse.

It also includes some extensions that integrate Firebase with Google Cloud Platform services such as BigQuery.

In addition, batch tasks require knowledge of the data schema of each service in order to get the data correctly and save it to the corresponding warehouse table. Assuming our data warehouse is GCP BigQuery, the schema in the warehouse table also needs to be created and modified manually.

BigQuery has a pricing model close to Pub/Sub : you pay for what you insert on the database (in streaming) and the storage of these data. The main difference is on what you can do with these data. BigQuery is not a message queuing service, this is a data warehouse service. It proposes a query service to exploit these data and you pay for these queries. Actually, not on the query itself but on the quantity of data manipulated for producing the results of the query. This means that you do not directly pay for a power capacity on query but on data transfer to produce the result which is very different from a none managed database perspective such SQL databases where the main model pricing is the node size to store and query data.

A Kafka-based data integration platform will be a good fit here. The services can add events to different topics in a broker whenever there is a data update. Kafka consumers corresponding to each of the services can monitor these topics and make updates to the data in real-time. It is also possible to create a unified data store through the same integration platform. Developers can implement a unified store either using an open source data warehouse like Apache Kylin or use a cloud-based one like Redshift or Snowflake. In this instance, the organization uses BigQuery. Data to this warehouse can be loaded through a separate Kafka topic. The below diagram summarizes the complete architecture.