Databend

Spec sheet

What it does

Databend is a Rust-based, cloud-native object-storage data warehouse combining BI analytics, vector search, full-text search and geospatial analysis through Snowflake-compatible SQL.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.databend.com

Product

Databend describes itself as an open-source, Rust-powered, cloud-native warehouse for analytics, search, and AI workloads.Read 30 Sep 2026 · databend.com

Integrations

Databend says it has more than 50 integrations spanning relational databases, streams and orchestrators, lake formats, cloud storage, visualization tools, languages and drivers.Read 15 Oct 2026 · databend.com

Compliance

The vendor states that Databend Cloud has SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance and undergoes regular audits.Read 15 Oct 2026 · databend.com

Support

The company page advertises 24/7 support, while plan details specify tier-specific response commitments.Read 15 Oct 2026 · databend.com

License

The repository is Apache 2.0, while a small set of enterprise features uses the Elastic 2.0 license.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Headquarters

Las Vegas, Nevada, United StatesRead 28 Sep 2026 · databend.com

Company

Databend Labs says it was founded by a team of engineers; the company page lists its address as 732 S 6TH ST, STE R, Las Vegas, NV 89101, USA.Read 30 Sep 2026 · databend.com

Access controls

Databend documents RBAC and DAC, masking policies, network policies, and password policies.Read 30 Sep 2026 · databend.com

Analytics and search

The product lists SQL analytics, full-text and JSON search, and vector search for AI among its capabilities.Read 30 Sep 2026 · databend.com

API and drivers

Official connection resources cover HTTP access, BendSQL, DBeaver, Java, Go, Python, Node.js, Rust, MCP server and MCP client.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.databend.com

BI and notebook tools

Documentation lists Deepnote, Jupyter, Metabase, Grafana, Redash, Superset, Tableau and MindsDB as analytics or visualization connections.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.databend.com

Branching

Git-like data branching lets agents experiment against production snapshots.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Community scale

The about page reports more than 230 contributors and over 9.5 thousand GitHub stars.Read 15 Oct 2026 · databend.com

Company founding and headquarters

LinkedIn lists the company as founded in 2021 with headquarters in Reno, Nevada, United States.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Company size

LinkedIn lists Databend as a software-development company with 51–200 employees.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Data ingestion

Databend Cloud Agent documentation describes continuous sync pipelines from S3/SQS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, TiDB, and Kafka.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.databend.com

Documentation depth

The documentation is organized into cloud, self-hosted, connection, loading, unloading, AI/ML, multimodal analytics, performance, security, data management, benchmarks and troubleshooting sections.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.databend.com

Downloads

The download page offers Databend Ubuntu x86-64 and ARM64 binaries plus BendSQL builds for Apple Silicon, Intel Mac, ARM64 and x86-64 Ubuntu and generic Linux.Read 15 Oct 2026 · databend.com

Encryption

Databend states that client-to-API traffic uses TLS 1.2 over HTTPS and that Enterprise supports server-side encryption for OSS storage.Read 15 Oct 2026 · databend.com

Encryption and compliance

Databend states that client connections use TLS 1.2 and describes SOC 2 Type II assessment and GDPR compliance.Read 30 Sep 2026 · databend.com

Full-text and JSON search

Databend advertises full-text and JSON search with inverted-index support for hybrid retrieval.Read 15 Oct 2026 · databend.com

Funding

Crunchbase lists one seed funding round and names UnityVC as the investor, without exposing the amount.Read 15 Oct 2026 · crunchbase.com

Geospatial

Geospatial indexes and functions support map and location analysis.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.databend.com

Legal entity

Crunchbase identifies the legal name as Datafuse Labs, Inc. and describes Databend as an active for-profit company.Read 15 Oct 2026 · crunchbase.com

Limit: independent review evidence

G2, Capterra and Software Advice listings each show no user reviews, so there is no repeated independent praise or complaint pattern in those directories.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Limit: unpublished enterprise pricing

Dedicated plan storage and compute prices are displayed as ** and require contacting sales.Read 15 Oct 2026 · databend.com

Named ingestion tools

Documentation names Kafka, dbt, Airbyte, Flink CDC, Addax, DataX, Debezium, Tapdata, Vector, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Amazon S3 for loading data.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.databend.com

Performance claim

The homepage claims provisioning below 500 milliseconds, more than 50% cost savings versus Snowflake Standard and a 99.95% uptime SLA.Read 15 Oct 2026 · databend.com

Private networking

AWS PrivateLink can connect customer VPCs to Databend Cloud clusters, with security groups used to control endpoint access.Read 15 Oct 2026 · databend.com

Python sandbox

Sandboxed Python UDFs can run agent logic, including model calls and tool use, with SQL orchestration.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Rating on Capterra

0.0 out of 5 from 0 reviews.Read 15 Oct 2026 · capterra.com

Rating on G2

0.0 out of 5 from 0 reviews.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Rating on Software Advice

No reviews yet; the listing shows pricing available upon request.Read 15 Oct 2026 · softwareadvice.com

REST API pricing

HTTP-handler REST API usage is billed at $1.00 per 10,000 requests for Personal and $2.00 per 10,000 for Business, with idle requests shown as $0.00.Read 15 Oct 2026 · databend.com

Security controls

Official security material lists RBAC and DAC permissions, masking policies, network policies, password policies, query audit logs, monitoring and anomaly detection.Read 15 Oct 2026 · databend.com

Self-hosted features

Databend Community lists Time Travel, Multi Catalog for Apache Hive and Apache Iceberg, and support for CSV, JSON, and Parquet ingestion.Read 30 Sep 2026 · databend.com

Self-hosting

Databend Community and Enterprise can be deployed on the customer's infrastructure, and the homepage provides a Docker command for local execution.Read 15 Oct 2026 · databend.com

SQL analytics

The engine provides vectorized execution, columnar storage, joins, aggregations, streaming transforms and high concurrency for SQL workloads.Read 15 Oct 2026 · databend.com

Storage

The homepage lists S3, Azure, GCS, OSS, R2, MinIO, HDFS, and HF as storage options.Read 30 Sep 2026 · databend.com

Storage backends

The architecture lists S3, Azure, Google Cloud Storage, OSS, Cloudflare R2, MinIO, HDFS and Hugging Face storage.Read 15 Oct 2026 · databend.com

System requirements

The local Python quick start requires Python 3.12 or 3.13 and databend-driver 0.34.0 or later.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Vector search

Embeddings, vector indexes and semantic retrieval can be executed in SQL for AI workloads.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.databend.com

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

• Analytical Data Store Software#1 of 289.2
• Data Warehouse Software#1 of 279.3
• Columnar Databases#3 of 279.2