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Databend Serverless Cloud (beta) |Documentation |Benchmarking |Roadmap (v1.3)

Databend, built in Rust, is an open-source cloud data warehouse that serves as a cost-effectivealternative to Snowflake. With its focus on fast query execution and data ingestion, it's designed for complex analysis of the world's largest datasets.

Production-Proven Scale:

• 🤝Enterprise Adoption: Trusted by over50 organizations processing more than100 million queries daily
• 🗄️Massive Scale: Successfully managing over800 petabytes of analytical data

• Full Control: Deploy oncloud oron-prem to suit your needs.

• Blazing-Fast Performance: Built withRust for high-speed query execution. 👉ClickBench

• Cost-Effective: Scalable architecture that boostsperformance and reducescosts. 👉TPC-H

• AI-Enhanced Analytics: Leverage built-inAI Functions for smarter data insights.

• Simplified ETL: Directdata ingestion without the need for external ETL tools. 👉Data Loading

• Real-Time Data Updates: Keep your analyticsup-to-date with real-time incremental data updates. 👉Stream

• Advanced Indexing: Boost query performance withVirtual Column,Aggregating Index, andFull-Text Index.

• ACID Compliance + Version Control: Ensure reliabletransactions with full ACID compliance and Git-like versioning.

• Schema Flexibility: Effortlessly handlesemi-structured data with the flexibleVARIANT data type.

• Community-Driven Growth:Open-source and continuously evolving with contributions from a global community.

The fastest way to try Databend,Databend Cloud

Prepare the image (once) from Docker Hub (this will download about 170 MB data):

docker pull datafuselabs/databend

To run Databend quickly:

docker run --net=host  datafuselabs/databend

Databend thrives on community contributions! Whether it's through ideas, code, or documentation, every effort helps in enhancing our project. As a token of our appreciation, once your code is merged, your name will be eternally preserved in thesystem.contributors table.

Here are some resources to help you get started:

• Building Databend From Source
• The First Good Pull Request

For guidance on using Databend, we recommend starting with the official documentation. If you need further assistance, explore the following community channels:

• Slack (For live discussion with the Community)
• GitHub (Feature/Bug reports, Contributions)
• Twitter (Get the news fast)
• I'm feeling lucky (Pick up a good first issue now!)

Stay updated with Databend's development journey. Here are our roadmap milestones:

• Roadmap 2025

Databend is released under a combination of two licenses: theApache License 2.0 and theElastic License 2.0.

When contributing to Databend, you can find the relevant license header in each file.

For more information, see theLICENSE file andLicensing FAQs.

• Inspiration: Databend's design draws inspiration from industry leadersClickHouse andSnowflake.

• Computing Model: Our computing foundation is built upon apache arrow.

• Documentation Hosting: TheDatabend documentation website proudly runs onVercel.