Feature comparison
Should you choose Snowplow Open Source, Snowplow BDP Cloud or Snowplow BDP Enterprise? Below you can find a detailed feature comparison. Still not sure? Check out our guide.
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Create & consume behavioral data | Open Source | BDP Cloud | BDP Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35+ trackers & webhooks | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| 1st party tracking | ✅ | coming soon | ✅ |
| Anonymous data collection | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Custom events & entities | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Enrichments | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Advanced stream transformations (JS, API, SQL enrichments) | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Out-of-the-box data models | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Data Product Accelerators | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Destinations hub | do-it-yourself | ❌ | ✅ |
| Warehouse / lake destinations | |||
| • Snowflake | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| • Redshift | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| • BigQuery | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
| • Databricks | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| • Elasticsearch | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
| • Postgres | ✅ (not suitable for high volumes) | ❌ | ❌ |
| • S3 | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
| • GCS | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Real-time streams | |||
| • Kinesis | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
| • Pubsub | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
| • Kafka | do-it-yourself | ❌ | bolt-on |
| • Azure Eventhubs | do-it-yourself | ❌ | bolt-on |
Build more trust in your data | Open Source | BDP Cloud | BDP Enterprise |
| Failed Events | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Data quality monitoring & API | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Jobs monitoring dashboard | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Pipeline configuration tooling | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| QA pipeline | do-it-yourself | ❌ | ✅ |
| Auto-scaling | do-it-yourself | ❌ | ✅ |
| Collector uptime SLA | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Warehouse loading latency SLA | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Surge protection | do-it-yourself | ❌ | ✅ |
| Outage protection | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ (top tier only) |
Collaborate across multiple teams | Open Source | BDP Cloud | BDP Enterprise |
| Seats | N/A | unlimited | unlimited |
| Data structures tooling & API | ❌ | ✅ (UI only) | ✅ |
| Tracking scenarios | ❌ | ✅ (UI only) | ✅ |
| Data modeling management tooling | ❌ | coming soon | ✅ |
| Tracking catalog | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
Deployment & security | Open Source | BDP Cloud | BDP Enterprise |
| Deployment method | self-hosted (AWS, GCP, Azure 🧪) | Snowplow-hosted cloud | private cloud (AWS, GCP) |
| Single Sign-On | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Fine grained user permissions (ACLs) | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ (top tier only) |
| Custom VPC integration | ❌ | ❌ | bolt-on |
| AWS Infra security bundle | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ (top tier only) |
Services | Open Source | BDP Cloud | BDP Enterprise |
| Self-help support website, FAQs and educational materials | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Community support via Discourse | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| 24/7/365 Support through email / Help Centre | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Support SLAs (first response time) * | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Infrastructure management | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Regular infrastructure reviews | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ (select tiers) |
| Deferred upgrades | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ (select tiers) |
| Provision of news / updates / ideas / customer stories | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Success management | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ (select tiers) |
| Data strategy and consultation sessions | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ (select tiers) |