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Ahoy vs Snowplow: What are the differences?

What is Ahoy? A solid foundation for analytics on Rails. Ahoy provides a solid foundation to track visits and events in Ruby, JavaScript, and native apps.

What is Snowplow? Enterprise-strength web, mobile, and event analytics, powered by Hadoop, Kinesis, Redshift and Elasticsearch. Every single event, from your website(s), mobile app(s), desktop applications and server-side systems, stored in your own data warehouse and available to action in real-time.

Ahoy and Snowplow can be primarily classified as "Custom Analytics" tools.

Ahoy and Snowplow are both open source tools. Snowplow with 4.82K GitHub stars and 1K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Ahoy with 2.71K GitHub stars and 267 GitHub forks.

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    Can track any type of digital event
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    First-party tracking
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    Real-time streams
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    Completely open source
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    Redshift integration
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    Snowflake integration
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    BigQuery integration

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What is Ahoy?

Ahoy provides a solid foundation to track visits and events in Ruby, JavaScript, and native apps.

What is Snowplow?

Snowplow is a real-time event data pipeline that lets you track, contextualize, validate and model your customers’ behaviour across your entire digital estate.

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What are some alternatives to Ahoy and Snowplow?
Google Analytics
Google Analytics lets you measure your advertising ROI as well as track your Flash, video, and social networking sites and applications.
Google Tag Manager
Tag Manager gives you the ability to add and update your own tags for conversion tracking, site analytics, remarketing, and more. There are nearly endless ways to track user behavior across your sites and apps, and the intuitive design lets you change tags whenever you want.
Mixpanel
Mixpanel helps companies build better products through data. With our powerful, self-serve product analytics solution, teams can easily analyze how and why people engage, convert, and retain to improve their user experience.
Mixpanel
Mixpanel helps companies build better products through data. With our powerful, self-serve product analytics solution, teams can easily analyze how and why people engage, convert, and retain to improve their user experience.
Optimizely
Optimizely is the market leader in digital experience optimization, helping digital leaders and Fortune 100 companies alike optimize their digital products, commerce, and campaigns with a fully featured experimentation platform.
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