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by vklmn 2138 days ago
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.

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RudderStack founder here.

Because we are Segment event structure/API compatible, there is an inherent structure in events. You can pass arbitrary JSON but only inside the properties or traits field of track/identify call. We do automatically create the schemas for those cases.

Congrats on your launch!! Glad to see more projects in this space. Would love to checkout your repo and share ideas etc.