# Amazon Redshift vs Apache Hudi

| Attribute | Amazon Redshift | Apache Hudi |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 49.1 (63% (medium)) | 51.4 (59% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 358 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 6,318 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 5,524 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A managed cloud data warehouse that combines traditional warehouse analytics with data lake query capabilities through a unified SQL engine, powered by AWS Graviton processors for high performance and cost efficiency. It is indexed under Data Warehouse Software.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_pr","question":"What is Amazon Redshift?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Amazon Redshift offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.54 per hour. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/pricing/","question":"Is Amazon Redshift free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Amazon Redshift. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_pr","question":"What platforms does Amazon Redshift support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Amazon Redshift, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_pr","question":"Can Amazon Redshift be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 7 integrations for Amazon Redshift, including Amazon S3, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, Apache Iceberg, Apache Parquet, Streaming services and Operational databases. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/pricing/","question":"What does Amazon Redshift integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed HIPAA and GDPR for Amazon Redshift. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Amazon Redshift not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/?nc2=h_dsc_aa_cmp","question":"What security certifications does Amazon Redshift have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Amazon Redshift is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/pricing/","question":"Where is Amazon Redshift available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"Apache Hudi is an open-source project enabling data teams to manage analytics datasets with ACID transactions, temporal data access, and change capture. It provides multi-language APIs and integrates with data processing systems like Spark, Flink, and Presto. It is indexed under Data Warehouse Software.","source":"https://hudi.apache.org","question":"What is Apache Hudi?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Apache Hudi is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://hudi.apache.org","question":"Is Apache Hudi free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Apache Hudi supports Linux. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://hudi.apache.org","question":"What platforms does Apache Hudi support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Apache Hudi can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://hudi.apache.org","question":"Can Apache Hudi be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 7 integrations for Apache Hudi, including AWS Glue, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Trino, Presto, Apache Hive and Apicurio Registry. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://hudi.apache.org","question":"What does Apache Hudi integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Apache Hudi is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/apache/hudi","question":"Is Apache Hudi open source?","confidence":0.67}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A managed cloud data warehouse that combines traditional warehouse analytics with data lake query capabilities through a unified SQL engine, powered by AWS Graviton processors for high performance and cost efficiency. | An open data lakehouse platform that enables ACID transactions and incremental processing on data lakes across cloud environments, providing tools for data ingestion, management, and query. |
| features.capabilities | `{"in_db_ml":true,"deployment":"managed","sql_dialect":"vendor","architecture":"separated","data_sharing":true,"compute_model":"clusters","license_class":"proprietary","table_formats":"Iceberg, Parquet","semi_structured":"functional","federation_query":true,"streaming_ingest":true,"concurrency_scaling":"automatic"}` | `{"deployment":"self","architecture":"separated","license_class":"permissive","table_formats":"Parquet with MOR support","semi_structured":"functional","federation_query":true,"streaming_ingest":true}` |
| integrations.count | 7 | 12 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"Amazon SageMaker"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock"},{"name":"Apache Iceberg"},{"name":"Apache Parquet"},{"name":"Streaming services"},{"name":"Operational databases"},{"name":"Amazon MSK","native":true,"category":"streaming","direction":"inbound"}]` | `[{"name":"AWS Glue"},{"name":"Apache Spark"},{"name":"Apache Flink"},{"name":"Trino"},{"name":"Presto"},{"name":"Apache Hive"},{"name":"Apicurio Registry"},{"name":"Apache Kafka","native":true,"category":"streaming","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Apache Hive Metastore","native":true,"category":"catalog","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google BigQuery","native":true,"category":"data_warehouse","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Apache XTable","native":true,"category":"data_format","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Amazon Athena","native":true,"category":"query_engine"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"Debezium"},{"name":"Hive Metastore"},{"name":"DuckDB"},{"name":"Iceberg"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Java |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Provisioned On-Demand","features":["Flexible scaling","Pause and resume","Node type selection","Elastic Resize"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0.543,"period":"hour","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Hourly billing for provisioned clusters with no long-term commitments; can pause/resume to avoid charges","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Provisioned Reserved Instances","features":["Significant discounts over on-demand","Steady-state workloads","Cost predictability"],"commitment":"annual","description":"Discounted pricing for reserved capacity with annual or multi-year commitment","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Serverless","features":["Automatic capacity scaling","No idle charges","Seconds-based billing","Automatic shutdown"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"hour"},"kind":"metered","amount":1.5,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Per-second billing with automatic scaling; no compute charges during idle periods","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Serverless Reservations","features":["Up to 45% savings on Serverless compute","Cross-account sharing","AWS payer account management"],"commitment":"annual","description":"Discounted Serverless rates; shareable across AWS accounts at the payer account level","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Redshift Managed Storage (RMS)"},{"name":"Concurrency Scaling"},{"name":"Redshift Spectrum"},{"name":"Redshift ML"}],"summary":"Provisioned from $0.543/hour on-demand or discounted reserved rates; Serverless from $1.50/hour per-second billing. Free $300 credit for 90 days on new Serverless accounts.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T15:27:34.606Z","freeTrialDays":90,"startingPrice":{"amount":0.543,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","hour","second"]}` | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://hudi.apache.org","retrievedAt":"2026-10-14T22:34:11.321Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | no | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | - |
| release.cadence_days | - | 63 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hudi/releases/tag/release-1.2.1","date":"2026-09-24T10:58:28Z","type":"stable","version":"release-1.2.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hudi/releases/tag/release-0.14.2","date":"2026-06-08T10:09:51Z","type":"stable","version":"release-0.14.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hudi/releases/tag/release-1.2.0","date":"2026-05-23T23:22:18Z","type":"stable","version":"release-1.2.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hudi/releases/tag/release-0.15.1","date":"2026-05-21T14:17:37Z","type":"stable","version":"release-0.15.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hudi/releases/tag/release-1.1.1","date":"2025-12-18T08:07:23Z","type":"stable","version":"release-1.1.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hudi/releases/tag/release-1.1.0","date":"2025-11-17T23:41:29Z","type":"stable","version":"release-1.1.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hudi/releases/tag/release-1.0.2","date":"2025-05-02T04:04:52Z","type":"stable","version":"release-1.0.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hudi/releases/tag/release-1.0.1","date":"2025-02-19T04:57:56Z","type":"stable","version":"release-1.0.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hudi/releases/tag/release-1.0.0","date":"2024-12-11T09:35:51Z","type":"stable","version":"release-1.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hudi/releases/tag/release-1.0.0-beta2","date":"2024-07-16T07:41:55Z","type":"prerelease","version":"release-1.0.0-beta2"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hudi/releases/tag/release-0.15.0","date":"2024-06-06T20:06:05Z","type":"stable","version":"release-0.15.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hudi/releases/tag/release-0.14.1","date":"2024-01-04T16:45:04Z","type":"stable","version":"release-0.14.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hudi/releases/tag/release-1.0.0-beta1","date":"2023-11-14T19:51:43Z","type":"prerelease","version":"release-1.0.0-beta1"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hudi/releases/tag/release-0.14.0","date":"2023-10-05T01:31:24Z","type":"stable","version":"release-0.14.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hudi/releases/tag/release-0.13.1","date":"2023-05-31T03:23:06Z","type":"stable","version":"release-0.13.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hudi/releases/tag/release-0.12.3","date":"2023-04-24T02:39:20Z","type":"stable","version":"release-0.12.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hudi/releases/tag/release-0.13.0","date":"2023-02-21T22:57:21Z","type":"stable","version":"release-0.13.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hudi/releases/tag/release-0.12.2","date":"2022-12-28T05:18:27Z","type":"stable","version":"release-0.12.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hudi/releases/tag/release-0.12.1","date":"2022-10-19T13:57:20Z","type":"stable","version":"release-0.12.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/hudi/releases/tag/release-0.12.0","date":"2022-08-17T05:50:08Z","type":"stable","version":"release-0.12.0"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"PCI-DSS","status":"active"},{"name":"HIPAA/HITECH","status":"active"},{"name":"FedRAMP","status":"active"},{"name":"GDPR","status":"active"},{"name":"FIPS 140-3","status":"active"},{"name":"NIST 800-171","status":"active"}]` | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 6.4 |
| security.trust_center | https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/?nc2=h_dsc_aa_cmp | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.apache.hudi%3Ahudi-hadoop-mr&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Data Warehouse Software)

| Capability | Amazon Redshift | Apache Hudi |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Managed cloud | Self-hosted |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Architecture | Separated storage/compute | Separated storage/compute |
| Compute model | Clusters | - |
| **Query** |  |  |
| SQL dialect | Vendor-specific | - |
| Federation / lakehouse query-in-place | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Interoperability** |  |  |
| Table-format support | Iceberg, Parquet | Parquet with MOR support |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Concurrency scaling | Automatic | - |
| **Ingestion** |  |  |
| Streaming ingest | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Data model** |  |  |
| Semi-structured (JSON/VARIANT) | Functional | Functional |
| **Analytics** |  |  |
| ML / in-DB functions | ✓ | - |
| **Sharing** |  |  |
| Data sharing / marketplace | ✓ | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Proprietary | Permissive OSS |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:08:28.908Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*