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Comment · 5 years ago
Thanks! Here's some more info on the git integration if you're curious: https://hightouch.io/blog/announcing-git-sync-back-your-sync...
Comment · 5 years ago
Then you could say the same thing about Hightouch and Segment. Segment == Rudderstack for all intensive purposes.
The way it's differentiated is that Rudderstack does event collection + forwarding + some flavor of reverse ETL. In order to be successful with them you'd need to replace your whole stack and do event collection with them. A lot of companies already have an existing stack and they want to buy a best-in-class Reverse ETL player (something that takes 5 min to set up) and that's where we come in!
Comment · 5 years ago
Thank you for the kind words :) We are just getting started!
Comment · 5 years ago
we started building this one August 2020 but honestly just had a lot of fun working on the design and UX! Conveying your feedback to him now!
Comment · 5 years ago
On a high level, ETL/ELT is about sending data from your SaaS tools into your data warehouse (you are reading from different tools). Reverse ETL is about getting data from your warehouse into tools (writing into different tools). Building ELT is a fundamentally different technical challenge than building Reverse ETL. Aspects like types, rate limits, and destination state (knowing whether data already exists in a destination) are unique to Reverse ETL. Visibility becomes challenging too as some destinations have unique quirks, like API contracts where you write to them but you don’t know if the write was successful or completed until later. Writing to tools also requires references between objects (foreign keys onto existing data, like mapping Companies and Opportunities in Salesforce) that aren’t necessary in the ELT world.
From a product perspective, the UX is very different as well. Reverse ETL requires a lot more user input (ex: mapping which fields to update in a tool), whereas ELT typically mirrors data using a standard schema (without much user customization involved).
We are close partners with ELT tools like Fivetran, and you can see our partnership post here: https://fivetran.com/blog/fivetran-partners-with-hightouch-t...
Comment · 5 years ago
Great question! We have a whole page about this here (https://hightouch.io/blog/hightouch-vs-census/).
But the TLDR is that Hightouch has more developer focused features (like a live debugger, alerting, version control with Git, and more here: https://hightouch.io/data-features/), a dedicated UI for business users to visually filter models (called Hightouch Audiences), more transparent pricing, as well as more integrations (70+) that are also deeper and customized for each tool.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yes, Clickhouse is a top priority source for us to build next to enable real-time analytics (we already support Rockset as a source used by customers like Seesaw). Would love to learn more about your use case for Clickhouse: feel free to reach out to [email protected]!
Comment · 5 years ago
Thanks so much for your support from the very beginning! We've only been in market publicly for a little over a year now actually. We figured better late than never (and it still feels early for us!) :)
Comment · 5 years ago
We would love feedback on our approach and to learn how you are doing this at your company!
Comment · 7 years ago
We're partnered with a travel agency with GDS access. Additionally, we use various other OTAs that give us the full range of inventory for hotels and flights.
In general, travel agents that only use GDS don't have access to budget airlines such as Easyjet or alternative accommodations such as Airbnb or Sonder.