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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.
Pros of Ahoy
- Free3
Pros of Snowplow
- Can track any type of digital event7
- First-party tracking5
- Data quality5
- Real-time streams4
- Completely open source4
- Redshift integration4
- Snowflake integration3
- BigQuery integration3