Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/databendlabs/databend/vs/pathwaycom/pathway
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/databendlabs/databend/vs/pathwaycom/pathway.md
Description: 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.

# 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.

- [databendlabs/databend](https://seerepo.com/r/databendlabs/databend): Data Agent Ready Warehouse : One for  Analytics, Search, AI, Python Sandbox.  — rebuilt from scratch. Unified architecture on your S3.
- [pathwaycom/pathway](https://seerepo.com/r/pathwaycom/pathway): Python ETL framework for stream processing, real-time analytics, LLM pipelines, and RAG.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: opendal, iceberg, iceberg-catalog-glue, iceberg-catalog-rest, MySQL, Tokio, apache-avro, log, prometheus-client, OpenTelemetry, opentelemetry-otlp
- Only in databend: sqlx-mysql, jsonb, arrow-flight, arrow, concurrent-queue, Redis, lru, sqlx, hashlink, Poem, tower, comfy-table, hmac, jsonwebtoken, jinja2, parquet, csv-core, zip, fastrace-opentelemetry, prometheus-parse
- 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

| | databend | pathway |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 1,145,859 lines written, 3,334 code files | 350,656 lines written, 599 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Amp, and Cursor | 0% of its commits signed by AI |
| Activity | Last push November 15, 2026, 25,604 commits, 9,495 stars | Last push November 12, 2026, 2,348 commits, 61,996 stars |
| Tests | 971 test files. 6.9% of its code files have a test that imports them | 274 test files. 16.7% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, databend or pathway?

databend, with 1,145,859 lines written; pathway has 350,656.

The proof: [databendlabs/databend's code at commit 2c77ade](https://github.com/databendlabs/databend/tree/2c77ade481cd917fd9f697300449ff412ff93eb3)

### Which has more GitHub stars, databend or pathway?

pathway, with 61,996 stars; databend has 9,495.

The proof: [pathwaycom/pathway on GitHub](https://github.com/pathwaycom/pathway)

### Which has more tests, databend or pathway?

databend, with 971 test files; pathway has 274.

The proof: [databendlabs/databend's code at commit 2c77ade](https://github.com/databendlabs/databend/tree/2c77ade481cd917fd9f697300449ff412ff93eb3)

### 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](https://github.com/databendlabs/databend/commits)

### 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](https://seerepo.com/r/databendlabs/databend/ai)

## Sources

- databendlabs/databend: Read on November 15, 2026, at commit 2c77ade (https://github.com/databendlabs/databend/tree/2c77ade481cd917fd9f697300449ff412ff93eb3)
- pathwaycom/pathway: Read on November 12, 2026, at commit 3606bea (https://github.com/pathwaycom/pathway/tree/3606bea6f70eb02a8a3fbbf21c036993f07982c9)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.