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Try Snowplow enables you to explore how Snowplow can help you solve your data use cases by:
- Collecting granular, well-structured data from your digital products and model, analyse and visualize it in your BI tool of choice.
- Exploring the recipe library to see how Snowplow approaches common data use cases such as marketing attribution, content recommendations or building a single customer view.
How does Try Snowplow compare to Snowplow BDP?
Try Snowplow is a minified version of the Snowplow BDP technology that uses the same core components as Snowplow BDP, but is:
- Free
- Fast (setup in less than 5 minutes)
- Non-scalable (unsuitable for production workloads)
| Try Snowplow | Snowplow BDP | |
| Hosted in your own cloud | ✗ | AWS, GCP |
| First-party server cookies | ✗ | ✓ |
| Unlimited sources | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom data structures | ✗ | ✓ |
| Available enrichments | 7 | 16 |
| Custom enrichments | ✗ | ✓ |
| Bad rows | ✓ (no UI) | ✓ (with monitoring and diagnosis UI) |
| Load data into warehouse | Postgres | Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery |
| Load data into lake | ✗ | S3, GCS |
| Data available in-stream | ✗ | Kinesis, PubSub, Azure Event Streams |
| Maximum throughput | 50 events per second* | Unlimited |
| Autoscaling | ✗ | ✓ |
| SLAs | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time limit | 14 days | Unlimited |
How do I get started?
There are only a handful of steps you need to take to get started with Try Snowplow: