Databend Cloud

Databend is an open-source, Rust-based cloud data warehouse and lakehouse with its listed headquarters in Las Vegas, Nevada. It targets organizations that want an alternative to proprietary cloud warehouses at lower cost, storing data directly on object storage with compute separated from storage.

The product line includes Databend Cloud, a fully managed serverless service, Databend Enterprise for self-hosting with extra enterprise features, and the free Databend Community edition. One engine covers SQL analytics, full-text and JSON search, vector search for AI, geospatial functions and a Python sandbox, using vectorized execution and columnar storage. It reads and writes data on S3, Azure Blob, GCS, R2, MinIO and HDFS and offers drivers for Python, Java, Go, Node.js and Rust. Solution pages target gaming, crypto, e-commerce and banking.

• Serverless warehouse: Compute starts on demand and scales separately from object storage.
• Unified engine: SQL analytics, full-text and JSON search and vector search in one system.
• Lakehouse support: Works with data lake formats and writes Iceberg tables directly on object storage.
• Data versioning: Table branches and tags give version control over datasets.
• Geospatial analytics: Geography functions and an R-Tree spatial index with spatial joins.
• Governance: RBAC, masking, network policies, encryption and query audit logs.

A Vietnamese game studio can analyze player events stored on object storage without a costly proprietary warehouse. An e-commerce company can run sales analytics and product search on one engine. A bank can self-host the Enterprise edition to keep analytical data on its own infrastructure.

The vendor's benchmark claims over 50% cost savings compared with Snowflake Standard. Warehouses provision in under 500 ms and the cloud service carries a 99.95% uptime SLA. Pay-as-you-use billing with $200 in free credits lowers the entry cost, and the open-source edition avoids lock-in. Security includes RBAC, masking and network policies, encryption and query audit logs.

Rising bills from proprietary cloud warehouses push mid-size companies toward open-source engines that run on cheap object storage. Demand for combining analytics with search and vector retrieval for AI is also growing, including among gaming, crypto and e-commerce companies in Asia.

Listed address: 732 S 6th St, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Open-source project written in Rust with monthly product reports in 2026. Databend Cloud is SOC 2 Type II certified, GDPR compliant and listed on AWS Marketplace. Partners include evot.ai, Greptime and AutoMQ.