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OpenSnowcat, fully Open-Source Snowplow Fork
OpenSnowcat is a fully Open-Source Snowplow fork with some minor differences. Notice this manual is not designed to be a replacement for the official Snowplow documentation but a complement as we intend for OpenSnowcat to be compatible with Snowplow.
Some noteworthy differences, mainly from a licensing perspective:
OpenSnowcat is fully Open Source and can be used in production unlike Snowplow where you will need to purchase a license to run in production.
Collector
- OpenSnowcat Collector is compatible with Segment Analytics.js. See docs.
Enricher
- OpenSnowcat Enricher supports EventBridge
- OpenSnowcat Enricher can write to JSON across all modules
Loader
OpenSnowcat maintains full compatibility with the original Snowplow loaders.
However, since these loaders are no longer open-source, we have taken two key steps:
- Simplified the enricher output to make integration easier and more flexible.
- Developed our own commercial loaders, with revenue reinvested directly into the continued development of OpenSnowcat.
Discover how to load data directly into your infrastructure.