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Re: Launch HN: Jitsu (YC S20) – Open-Source Segment Alternative

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Are there any examples on how the resultant SQL tables look like in postgres or clickhouse for a given event schema? I'd like to know how generic it is per event type (is it sth like (event id, blob), or tries to decompose each event field into a column - what about nested objects then, etc.)). Knowing this would greatly improve my understanding on reusability of jitsu for various event-collection tasks I may have.

That's what the website missing indeed. We have a few words about that in docs, but it's still not enough https://jitsu.com/docs/internals/jitsu-server#mapping-step Overall, Jitsu tries to decompose (aka flatten) JSON as deep as possible. E.g. {a: {b:1, c:2}} will become a_b=1, a_c=2. If column is missing, it will be created. We don't decompose arrays so far

Can one disable the flattening? BigQuery, for example, supports nested objects just fine, and flattening them for no particular reason seems counter-productive.

I work on an application where we already have a schema in BQ, but we'd like to start moving events through something like Jitsu or Rudderstack. This uses nested objects extensively. Looking at Jitsu, it looks like we wouldn't be able to keep our existing table schema.

PS. Whoever wrote your BigQuery code does not understand Go contexts. Only functions should take a context argument; you should almost never store contexts in structs!

Re: Launch HN: Jitsu (YC S20) – Open-Source Segment Alternative

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Mixpanel will store the data for you and do visualization. Jitsu just help you to get you data to your data warehouse. Downside: you'll need to build all visualization by yourself. Fortunately that's easy with tools such as Looker, Mode, Metabase etc Upside: you can do with your data whatever you want - built any reports, join with other datasets etc. You not limited by reports MixPanel team build. In reality, Jitsu…

Feedback on "Jitsu support s MixPanel as a destination" This is not really clear from the website. Mixpanel is mentioned in https://jitsu.com/sources but NOT in https://jitsu.com/destinations . Also the docs seem very clear about that. We are currently looking at Segment, Jitsu and others. While we generally liked Jitsu, this was kind of a big deal for us and made us lean towards Segment. However, no final decision h…

Mixpanel employee here, I actually just emailed Jitsu this morning to ask about adding Mixpanel as a destination. We're willing to work with them (or any of you!) to get the PR open. Feel free to reach out directly to josh@mixpanel.com!

Re: Launch HN: Jitsu (YC S20) – Open-Source Segment Alternative

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CTO at Vertica here. How can we make sure Vertica is one of the DWH destinations in Jitsu?

Hi! We don't have plans to add Vertica yet. But if your team is willing to help or send PR we can reconsider!Feel free to reach out directly to me at vladimir@jitsu.com
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