Snowplow VS Rudderstack

We’ve also thought about Ops :-). There’s a backend 'Collector' that stores data in Postgres, for instance to use while developing locally, or if you want to get set up quickly. But there’s also full integration with Snowplow, which works seamlessly with an existing Snowplow setup as well.

Sure thing! Say you run an online store. Your source systems could be the inventory, orders or customer databases. You could also track click/site behavior with something like snowplow. An ERP system is essentially just a combination of what I mentioned previously. Another good example is a CRM such as Salesforce or Zendesk. Hopefully that helps!

There are so many of them in big data, e.g. Kafka, Spark, Flink, Delta, Snowplow, Finagle, Deequ, CMAK, OpenWhisk, Snowflake, TheHive, TVM-VTA, etc.

I added Snowplow Analytics to a site with a lot of traffic. It was a very basic implementation, where data is collected with Snowplow, stored in google big query, and visualized in google data studio. The data is collected from the caching/web server combined with a client-side tracker.

Well if you have to structure and create Schema and manage Data Warehouses, you need a tool to do that, so in the background you see SnowPlow, which helps you do just that. Make the data into some kind of sensible structure so that later on business analysts can come see whats up. Want to do a quarterly report on how you performed, go to the application that goes to the data warehouse and builds your report for you. Want to compare to other similar companies in the portfolio to see how they are performing, same story. Data scientists will build and structure the data and store it and manipulate it and extract the value from it so that the analysts and sales people can then come in and do some selling. Show the customers what they got for their money and guarantee the renewal.

if you want self host, check out https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow

We also have telemetry set up on our Monosi product which is collected through Snowplow,. As with Airbyte, we chose Snowplow because of its open source offering and because of their scalable event ingestion framework. There are other open source options to consider including Jitsu and RudderStack or closed source options like Segment. Since we started building our product with just a CLI offering, we didn’t need a full CDP solution so we chose Snowplow.

https://matomo.org

That's the only full featured open source competitor I am aware of, so it should be mentioned.

https://snowplowanalytics.com/

Somewhat FOSS. There was a story there, but I don't remember the details.

I added Snowplow Analytics to a site with a lot of traffic. It was a very basic implementation, where data is collected with Snowplow, stored in google big query, and visualized in google data studio. The data is collected from the caching/web server combined with a 1st part cookie set in the user's browser.

If CDP(such as RudderStack) were a restaurant, then Data Integration is the guy that gets all raw ingrediants from different shops and makes it available to Chef that sorts and combines raw ingrediants to make a dish. The chef can't cook anything without raw ingrediamt. Similarly Data Integration is also an important component in CDP that collects customer data from various sources and them other components unify it and activate it.

More details on GitHub repository - https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server

Are you RudderStack?

In bigger setups, all you want is a data collector and router so that you can feed the data into multiple destinations, depending on the use case. Analytics is just one. Example: https://www.rudderstack.com/ & https://www.rudderstack.com/replace-google-analytics-4-guide...

Check out RudderStack, a Go project to build data pipeline. Our slack is quite active. The best way to contribute is by creating a new integration with your favorite tool. You do not need to rely to too much on existing knowledge about inner workings of the project to do so, so it is beginner friendly.

Interesting. About "Redshift need google sheet sync to table", wouldn't this be more aligned with the responsibility of a CDP(such as RudderStack) as opposed to something we expext a warehouse to do?

The challenge is over. Winners have been announced. When we are ready for the next one, will announce on RudderStack GitHub repo

Super. This is amazing. Sharing your project with the community. If you get a chance, try out RudderStack to build your pipeline.