Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/gorse-io/gorse/vs/pathwaycom/pathway
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/gorse-io/gorse/vs/pathwaycom/pathway.md
Description: gorse and pathway share 6 technologies: MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Postgres, Qdrant, and OpenTelemetry. gorse is written in Go and pathway in Rust.

# gorse vs pathway

gorse and pathway share 6 technologies: MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Postgres, Qdrant, and OpenTelemetry. gorse is written in Go and pathway in Rust.

- [gorse-io/gorse](https://seerepo.com/r/gorse-io/gorse): AI powered open source recommender system engine supports classical/LLM rankers and multimodal content via embedding
- [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: MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Postgres, Qdrant, OpenTelemetry
- Only in gorse: go-redis, go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver, modernc.org/sqlite, pq, redisotel, github.com/XSAM/otelsql, github.com/weaviate/weaviate, Milvus, Redis, github.com/emicklei/go-restful-openapi/v2, github.com/emicklei/go-restful/v3, gorm.io/gorm, go-openai, Prometheus, go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/mongo/otelmongo, go.uber.org/zap
- Only in pathway: FastAPI, pg_walstream, pgvector, postgres-native-tls, questdb-rs, rdkafka, rusqlite, rust-s3, deltalake, async-nats, iceberg, aws-sdk-dynamodb, rumqttc, schema_registry_converter, aws-sdk-kinesis, duckdb, opendal, pulsar, usearch, async-lru, cached, diskcache, iceberg-catalog-glue, iceberg-catalog-rest, iceberg-storage-opendal, tiberius, Kafka, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, ClickHouse, uvicorn, Tokio, panel, AIOHTTP, jupyter-bokeh, Rich, sqlmodel, SQLAlchemy, ed25519-dalek, scikit-learn, csv, apache-avro, Pydantic, beartype, log, pyo3-log, opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc, opentelemetry-otlp, prometheus-client

## Side by side

| | gorse | pathway |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 55,944 lines written, 71 code files | 350,656 lines written, 599 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.7% of its commits signed by AI. With GitHub Copilot | 0% of its commits signed by AI |
| Activity | Last push November 12, 2026, 1,452 commits, 9,923 stars | Last push November 12, 2026, 2,348 commits, 61,996 stars |
| Tests | 128 test files. 90.1% 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, gorse or pathway?

pathway, with 350,656 lines written; gorse has 55,944.

The proof: [pathwaycom/pathway's code at commit 3606bea](https://github.com/pathwaycom/pathway/tree/3606bea6f70eb02a8a3fbbf21c036993f07982c9)

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

pathway, with 61,996 stars; gorse has 9,923.

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

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

pathway, with 274 test files; gorse has 128.

The proof: [pathwaycom/pathway's code at commit 3606bea](https://github.com/pathwaycom/pathway/tree/3606bea6f70eb02a8a3fbbf21c036993f07982c9)

### Which was updated more recently, gorse or pathway?

Both got their last push on November 12, 2026.

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

### Which has more commits signed by AI, gorse or pathway?

gorse: an AI signed 0.7% of its commits, with GitHub Copilot.

## Sources

- gorse-io/gorse: Read on November 14, 2026, at commit 67f67ac (https://github.com/gorse-io/gorse/tree/67f67acf7cacb520db24fbd2d9a4abefbcb6c4c5)
- 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.