# Apache Doris vs Delta Lake

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Delta Lake

| Attribute | Apache Doris | Delta Lake |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 49.6 (45% (low)) | 61 (58% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 1 | 152 |
| adoption.github_stars | 16,078 | 9,042 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 6,751,062 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Apache Doris is an open-source, real-time database for modern analytics and AI. Run it shared-nothing on bare metal, or disaggregated on cloud object storage. It is indexed under Data Warehouse Software.","source":"https://doris.apache.org","question":"What is Apache Doris?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Apache Doris 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://doris.apache.org","question":"Is Apache Doris free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Apache Doris can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://doris.apache.org","question":"Can Apache Doris be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Apache Doris 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/doris","question":"Is Apache Doris open source?","confidence":0.95}]` | `[{"answer":"An open-source storage framework enabling lakehouse architecture with support for multiple compute engines including Spark, Flink, Trino, Snowflake, BigQuery, and others. It is indexed under Data Warehouse Software.","source":"https://delta.io","question":"What is Delta Lake?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Delta Lake 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://delta.io","question":"Is Delta Lake free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Delta Lake can be deployed cloud / SaaS, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://delta.io","question":"Can Delta Lake be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 29 integrations for Delta Lake, including Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache Hive, Apache Pulsar, Apache Druid, ClickHouse, Trino and PrestoDB, plus 21 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://delta.io","question":"What does Delta Lake integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Delta Lake 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/delta-io/delta","question":"Is Delta Lake open source?","confidence":0.99}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A distributed analytics database optimized for low-latency queries on petabyte-scale data. Supports querying data lakes in open formats like Iceberg and Delta Lake, as well as streaming data ingestion and semi-structured data processing. | A storage framework enabling lakehouse architectures—unified platforms combining data warehouse and data lake capabilities—that works with multiple query engines and can be deployed on any cloud, on-premises, or locally. |
| features.capabilities | `{"deployment":"hybrid","architecture":"coupled_mpp","compute_model":"clusters","license_class":"permissive","table_formats":"Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi","semi_structured":"first_class","federation_query":true,"streaming_ingest":true}` | `{"deployment":"self","architecture":"separated","data_sharing":true,"license_class":"permissive","table_formats":"Delta, Iceberg, Hudi","semi_structured":"first_class","federation_query":true,"streaming_ingest":true}` |
| integrations.count | 15 | 15 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Iceberg","native":true,"category":"data_format","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Delta Lake","native":true,"category":"data_format","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Hudi","native":true,"category":"data_format","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Hive","native":true,"category":"data_source","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Kafka","native":true,"category":"streaming","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Flink","native":true,"category":"data_processing","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Spark","native":true,"category":"data_processing","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"PostgreSQL","native":false,"category":"data_source","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Microsoft Fabric","native":false,"category":"cloud_platform","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"MaxCompute","native":false,"category":"data_source","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"AWS S3","native":false,"category":"object_storage"},{"name":"Tencent Cloud COS","native":false,"category":"object_storage"},{"name":"MySQL","native":false,"category":"database"},{"name":"Parquet","native":true,"category":"data_format","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"ORC","native":true,"category":"data_format","direction":"outbound"}]` | `[{"name":"Apache Spark"},{"name":"Apache Flink"},{"name":"Apache Hive"},{"name":"Apache Pulsar"},{"name":"Apache Druid"},{"name":"ClickHouse"},{"name":"Trino"},{"name":"PrestoDB"},{"name":"StarRocks"},{"name":"RisingWave"},{"name":"Dagster"},{"name":"Hopsworks"},{"name":"MLflow"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"AWS Athena"},{"name":"AWS EMR"},{"name":"AWS Glue"},{"name":"Azure Stream Analytics"},{"name":"Google BigQuery"},{"name":"Snowflake"},{"name":"Databricks"},{"name":"AWS Redshift"},{"name":"Microsoft Fabric"},{"name":"Power BI"},{"name":"Starburst"},{"name":"Oracle"},{"name":"Excel"},{"name":"FINOS Legend"},{"name":"Kotosiro"},{"name":"Apache Kafka","native":true},{"name":"Amazon Athena"},{"name":"Amazon Redshift"},{"name":"Azure Fabric"},{"name":"Apache Iceberg"},{"name":"Apache Hudi"}]` |
| language.primary | Java | Scala |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | - | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` | - |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","summary":"Open source, free","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://doris.apache.org","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T12:40:49.748Z"}` | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://delta.io","retrievedAt":"2026-09-10T16:04:07.641Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| release.cadence_days | 20 | 50 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 6.2 |
| security.trust_center | https://doris.apache.org/community/security/ | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=dbt-doris&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=io.delta%3Adelta-standalone_2.12&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Data Warehouse Software)

| Capability | Apache Doris | Delta Lake |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Hybrid | Self-hosted |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Architecture | Coupled MPP | Separated storage/compute |
| Compute model | Clusters | - |
| **Query** |  |  |
| SQL dialect | - | - |
| Federation / lakehouse query-in-place | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Interoperability** |  |  |
| Table-format support | Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi | Delta, Iceberg, Hudi |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Concurrency scaling | - | - |
| **Ingestion** |  |  |
| Streaming ingest | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Data model** |  |  |
| Semi-structured (JSON/VARIANT) | First-class | First-class |
| **Analytics** |  |  |
| ML / in-DB functions | - | - |
| **Sharing** |  |  |
| Data sharing / marketplace | - | ✓ |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Permissive OSS | Permissive OSS |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-17T05:47:30.357Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*