Astronomer vs Rudderstack: What are the differences?

What is Astronomer? Capture every user event and route them anywhere. Automatically. Astronomer is a data engineering platform that collects, processes and unifies enterprise data so you can get straight to analytics, data science and insights. Astronomer Clickstream captures valuable user events and routes them straight to all your favorite tools or a data warehouse for analytics. All in real time.

What is Rudderstack? An open source alternative to segment. It is a platform for collecting, storing and routing customer event data to dozens of tools. It is open-source, can run in your cloud environment (AWS, GCP, Azure or even your data-centre) and provides a powerful transformation framework to process your event data on the fly.

Astronomer and Rudderstack can be primarily classified as "Analytics Integrator" tools.

Some of the features offered by Astronomer are:

• VPC Deployment - Control your infrastructure on your private cloud
• Real-time monitoring - See for yourself that your data is flowing smoothly
• Robust library - and when you need a new connector, just ask

On the other hand, Rudderstack provides the following key features:

• Production Ready
• Extreme Scale
• Segment API Compatibile

Rudderstack is an open source tool with 1.58K GitHub stars and 59 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Rudderstack's open source repository on GitHub.