risinglight
An educational OLAP database system. (by risinglightdb)
databend
Data Agent Ready Warehouse : One for Analytics, Search, AI, Python Sandbox. — rebuilt from scratch. Unified architecture on your S3. (by databendlabs)
| risinglight | databend | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 37 | |
| 1,836 | 9,328 | |
| 0.2% | 0.6% | |
| 5.8 | 9.9 | |
| 10 months ago | 1 day ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
risinglight
Posts with mentions or reviews of risinglight.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-19.
databend
Posts with mentions or reviews of databend.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-08-25.
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Databend Monthly Report: July 2025
Check out what we're building at https://github.com/databendlabs/databend.
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Databend Monthly Report（June 2025）
We're continuing to expand both our audit capabilities and AI foundations. Check out our progress at https://github.com/databendlabs/databend - whether you're looking for enterprise compliance features today or want to prepare for a future where all your data - structured, semi-structured, and unstructured - lives in one intelligent platform, we're building exactly that.
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Top 5 Snowflake Alternatives for Cost-Effective Data Warehousing
Check out Databend, an open-source alternative to Snowflake with 90%+ product and syntax similarity (almost no migration cost). It’s cost-effective and powerful.
GitHub: https://github.com/datafuselabs/databend/issues/13059
Comparison: https://www.databend.com/comparison
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TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them
UUID v7's timestamp is a game-changer for Databend. We're using it to quickly locate metadata files on AWS S3 by timestamp, making operations like vacuuming much faster.
PR: https://github.com/datafuselabs/databend/pull/16049
- Pretty backtrace print on panic with in-context code
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Solutions to manage runaway Snowflake costs?
Databend vs. Snowflake: https://github.com/datafuselabs/databend/issues/13059
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I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars
Indeed, under a pay-as-you-go model, if there's a lack of precise control over the warehouse, such as a 10-minute suspension, it could lead to significant waste. This is because most queries might only take a few seconds, and the rest of the time is wasted. If you find Snowflake expensive, consider Databend. It's an open-source, cost-efficient alternative to Snowflake, and it maintains a consistent product experience with Snowflake.
Open-source: https://github.com/datafuselabs/databend
- Databend – The Open Source Alternative to Snowflake Worth Considering
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Anyone have experience with Databend (local or cloud)?
They're advertising as an open source direct competitor with Snowflake, with the ability to store data in parquet files. Github repo (5.6k stars) here.
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An interesting SQL function in Databend: AI_TO_SQL
Databend has recently introduced an SQL function that generates SQL statements from natural language. This feature can significantly reduce the time required for writing and debugging SQL statements.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing risinglight and databend you can also consider the following projects:
turso - Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite.
db-benchmark - reproducible benchmark of database-like ops
tonbo - Tonbo is an embedded database for serverless and edge runtimes.
duckdb-rs - Ergonomic bindings to duckdb for Rust
glaredb - GlareDB: A light and fast SQL database for analytics
datafuse - An elastic and reliable Cloud Warehouse, offers Blazing Fast Query and combines Elasticity, Simplicity, Low cost of the Cloud, built to make the Data Cloud easy [Moved to: https://github.com/datafuselabs/databend]