# Apache Hudi vs Delta Lake

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Delta Lake

| Attribute | Apache Hudi | Delta Lake |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 51.4 (59% (medium)) | 61 (58% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 358 | 152 |
| adoption.github_stars | 6,318 | 9,042 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 5,524 | 6,751,062 |
| content.faq | `[{"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}]` | `[{"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 | 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. | 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":"self","architecture":"separated","license_class":"permissive","table_formats":"Parquet with MOR support","semi_structured":"functional","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 | 12 | 15 |
| integrations.list | `[{"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"}]` | `[{"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}` | - |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://hudi.apache.org","retrievedAt":"2026-10-14T22:34:11.321Z"}` | `{"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 | 63 | 50 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| security.scorecard | 6.4 | 6.2 |
| 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}` | `{"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 Hudi | Delta Lake |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Self-hosted |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Architecture | Separated storage/compute | Separated storage/compute |
| Compute model | - | - |
| **Query** |  |  |
| SQL dialect | - | - |
| Federation / lakehouse query-in-place | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Interoperability** |  |  |
| Table-format support | Parquet with MOR support | Delta, Iceberg, Hudi |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Concurrency scaling | - | - |
| **Ingestion** |  |  |
| Streaming ingest | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Data model** |  |  |
| Semi-structured (JSON/VARIANT) | Functional | First-class |
| **Analytics** |  |  |
| ML / in-DB functions | - | - |
| **Sharing** |  |  |
| Data sharing / marketplace | - | ✓ |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Permissive OSS | Permissive OSS |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:06:09.363Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*