Pathway Alternatives

pathway reviews and mentions

• pathway VS cocoindex - a user suggested alternative
  2 projects | 1 Apr 2025
• ArkFlow – High-performance Rust stream processing engine
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Mar 2025
• Show HN: Pathway – Build Mission Critical ETL and RAG in Python (NATO, F1 Used)
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jun 2024

  The main factor impacting the RAM requirement of the instance is the size of the data that you feed into it, especially if you need an in-memory index. (If you are curious about peak memory use etc., you can profile Pathway memory use in Grafana: https://github.com/pathwaycom/pathway/tree/main/examples/pro....)

  One point to clarify is that "Pathway Community" is self-hosted, and the "8GB RAM - 4 cores" value is just a limit on the dimension of your own/cloud machine that the framework will effectively use. Currently, if you would like to get a "free" cloud machine to go with your project, we suggest going for "Pathway Scale" and reaching out through the #Developer Assist link - add a mention that you are interested in cloud credits. You can also go with 3rd party hosting providers like http://render.com/ who have a (somewhat modest) free tier for Docker instances, or reasonably priced ones like fly.io https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/.

• Choosing Between a Streaming Database and a Stream Processing Framework in Python
  10 projects | dev.to | 10 Feb 2024

  We understood how streaming databases differ from traditional databases, stream processing engines, conventional analytics databases, or OLAP databases. Now let’s focus on when and why we can use stream data processing frameworks for Python as an alternative to streaming databases. Python is the go-to language for data science and machine learning. There are some stream-processing libraries and frameworks in Python such as Bytewax, Quix, GlassFlow, Pathway. They have been developed to cope with the challenges Python Engineers face with Apache Kafka or Flink since they do not natively support Python.

• How to build a custom GPT enabled full-stack app for real-time data
  5 projects | dev.to | 5 Sep 2023

  Maintain a data snapshot to observe variations in sales prices over time, as Pathway provides a built-in feature to compute differences between two alterations.

• Show HN: LLM App – build a realtime LLM app in 30 lines, with no vector database
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jul 2023

  Pathway (https://github.com/pathwaycom/pathway) is a data processing framework we are developing that unifies stream and batch processing of large datasets. It lets developers concentrate on writing the data processing logic, without worrying about tracking changes to data and updating the results. The same code can then be run on batch data (e.g. during testing) or on real-time data streams (i.e. online query processing)

  In the LLM app, Pathway allows concentrating on prompt building and querying the LLM APIs as if the corpus of documents were static, while all updates to it are handled by the framework itself.

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