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We solve the same problem, but with different approach: we aim for very quick-start: snowplow consist from multiple services, EventNative has everything in one service. Also, we have more destinations in pipeline, also we're going to collect data from more sources as well (Google Ads, Facebook etc).

Overall, snowplow is a great product, but they build for more complicated data pipelines rather than EventNative. We want to keep things simple

Well, you can use EventNative and Google Analytics at the same time and just compare the numbers

We are not trying to bypass adblock. If selfhost EventNative on track.yourapp.com, AdBlock has less incentive to block JS code on yourapp.com. It doesn't look like 3rd-party tracker, just like a part of you application (you can even host it at yourapp.com/en if you reverse-proxy with nginx

We anticipated that question :)

RudderStack is focusing on replacing Segment.com completely, we focus only on a part of the problem: getting events to DWH. Also, we don't have a UI.

By narrowing down the focus, we think we can do a better job sending data to DWHs. One example: we automatically create SQL schema based on JSON structure. You can send

{ "any": { "custom": "a", "field": "b" } }

To EventNative and we'll create any_custom and any_field columns in DWH table on a fly.

Not really :( We design EventNative to collect data solely for analytics purposes. However, you still can send events from microservices as well. We're building server-2-server HTTP API and will hope that people contribute clients for popular languages

Took a look at their github. Great product! However, it requires Hadoop or Kafka cluster setup (=devops resourced). We designed kSense to be a simple as possible and have as few dependencies as possible.

Besides, if you want to data to land at BQ/CH or RedShift with Devlot, you'll need add a 3rd-party Kafka->DWH layer. I'm pretty sure there'are many oss options. Not sure if they can automatically generare SQL schema from JSON object like EventNative

We actually ask to insert a snippet after GA / Segment initialization code.

The algo is a follows: a) check if ga / analytics object is present b) add interceptor c) if the code was fully loaded (not a stup), send "fake" pageview event (which has been already sent), intercept it and send to EN backend only (not the original backend).

Also, we received a pull request that won't require EN code be inserted after GA/Segment. It tries to get window.ga/analytics object. If it doesn't exist, try the same thing in 1 second via setTimeout. We most likely with merge it to master soon

That's the exact reason we decided to build EventNative and opensource it. We noticed that a lot of teams are building similar platforms in house

Maintainers are here! (it's me, @pwys and @xtreding) Actually, we have a Slack: https://eventnative.slack.com/ You're welcome to join!

We actually working on ClickHouse integration right now, it will be shipped next week!

Re: materialized views - since not all DWH support them, we're not sure how can we leverage them. However, what do you have in mind? Maybe we're wrong!