databend vs pathway
databend and pathway share 11 technologies: opendal, iceberg, iceberg-catalog-glue, iceberg-catalog-rest, MySQL, Tokio, apache-avro, log, prometheus-client, OpenTelemetry, and opentelemetry-otlp. Both are written in Rust.
What they share and what sets them apart
databendlabs
databend
Data Agent Ready Warehouse : One for Analytics, Search, AI, Python Sandbox. — rebuilt from scratch. Unified architecture on your S3.
Rust9.5kRead on November 15, 2026, at commit 2c77adeWhat is databend built with?Only in databend
In common
opendal
- iceberg
- iceberg-catalog-glue
- iceberg-catalog-rest
- MySQL
- Tokio
apache-avro
- log
- prometheus-client
- OpenTelemetry
opentelemetry-otlp
pathwaycom
pathway
Python ETL framework for stream processing, real-time analytics, LLM pipelines, and RAG.
Rust62kRead on November 12, 2026, at commit 3606beaWhat is pathway built with?Only in pathway
- FastAPI
- pg_walstream
pgvector
- postgres-native-tls
questdb-rs
- rdkafka
rusqlite
- rust-s3
deltalake
- SQLite
- MongoDB
async-nats
- aws-sdk-dynamodb
- Postgres
- rumqttc
- schema_registry_converter
aws-sdk-kinesis
- duckdb
- pulsar
usearch
- async-lru
- cached
- diskcache
- iceberg-storage-opendal
- tiberius
- Kafka
- Qdrant
- Elasticsearch
- RabbitMQ
- ClickHouse
uvicorn
panel
- AIOHTTP
- jupyter-bokeh
- Rich
sqlmodel
- SQLAlchemy
- ed25519-dalek
- scikit-learn
- csv
- Pydantic
beartype
- pyo3-log
opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc
Side by side
databendpathway
SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
databend1,145,859 lines written3,334 code files
pathway350,656 lines written599 code files
Who writes itA commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
databend0.1% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Amp, and Cursor
pathway0% of its commits signed by AI
ActivityFrom GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
databendLast push November 15, 202625,604 commits9,495 stars
pathwayLast push November 12, 20262,348 commits61,996 stars
TestsThe files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.
databend971 test files6.9% of its code files have a test that imports them
pathway274 test files16.7% of its code files have a test that imports them
Frequently asked questions
Which is bigger, databend or pathway?
databend, with 1,145,859 lines written; pathway has 350,656.
Which has more GitHub stars, databend or pathway?
pathway, with 61,996 stars; databend has 9,495.
The proof: pathwaycom/pathway on GitHub
Which has more tests, databend or pathway?
databend, with 971 test files; pathway has 274.
Which was updated more recently, databend or pathway?
databend: its last push was on November 15, 2026, and pathway's on November 12, 2026.
The proof: databendlabs/databend's commits on GitHub
Which has more commits signed by AI, databend or pathway?
databend: an AI signed 0.1% of its commits, with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Amp, and Cursor.
The proof: the commits each tool signed in databendlabs/databend
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