# Apache Hudi vs Tinybird

| Attribute | Apache Hudi | Tinybird |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 51.4 (59% (medium)) | 52.1 (73% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 358 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 6,318 | - |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 5,524 | - |
| 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":"A platform for data and engineering teams to ingest data from multiple sources, query it with SQL, and publish low-latency API endpoints for real-time analytics at scale. It is indexed under Data Warehouse Software.","source":"https://www.tinybird.co/pricing/calculator","question":"What is Tinybird?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Tinybird offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $49 per month. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.tinybird.co","question":"Is Tinybird free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Tinybird supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.tinybird.co/pricing/calculator","question":"What platforms does Tinybird support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Tinybird, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://www.tinybird.co/pricing/calculator","question":"Can Tinybird be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 8 integrations for Tinybird, including Kafka, S3, GCS, DynamoDB, BigQuery, Postgres, MySQL and Snowflake. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.tinybird.co/pricing/calculator","question":"What does Tinybird integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for Tinybird. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Tinybird not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.tinybird.co/product/security-and-compliance","question":"What security certifications does Tinybird have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Tinybird is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://www.tinybird.co/pricing/calculator","question":"Where is Tinybird available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":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 data platform providing managed ClickHouse with serverless scaling, built-in data connectors, and developer tools to quickly build real-time analytics APIs without infrastructure management. |
| 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":"managed","architecture":"serverless","compute_model":"serverless","streaming_ingest":true}` |
| integrations.count | 12 | 7 |
| 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":"Kafka"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"GCS"},{"name":"DynamoDB"},{"name":"BigQuery","native":true,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Postgres","native":true,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"MySQL","native":true,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Snowflake","native":true,"direction":"inbound"}]` |
| language.primary | Java | - |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| market.availability | - | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://hudi.apache.org","retrievedAt":"2026-10-14T22:34:11.321Z"}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free","features":["Shared infrastructure","0.25 vCPUs","1 thread/request","1k requests per day","10GB included storage","Community support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Start building with no credit card required","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"vcpu":"0.25","storage":"10GB","requests_per_day":"1k"}},{"free":false,"name":"Developer","summary":"$49/month","features":["Shared infrastructure","0.5 vCPUs","1 thread/request","25GB included storage","Vertical scaling","2 replicas included","Standard support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":49,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Deploy and scale in production","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"vcpu":"0.5","storage":"25GB","replicas":"2"}},{"free":false,"name":"SaaS","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Shared infrastructure","Up to 32 vCPUs","4 to 16 threads/request","500GB included storage","Vertical scaling","2 replicas included","Enterprise support available","Yearly commitments discount"],"description":"Instant infra for your workloads","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"vcpu":"Up to 32","storage":"500GB","threads":"4 to 16 threads/request"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Dedicated infrastructure","Unlimited vCPUs","Custom threads/request","Bottomless storage","Vertical and horizontal scaling","Cluster management","Private regions available","Enterprise support included","Yearly commitments discount"],"description":"Guaranteed performance at scale","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"vcpu":"Unlimited","storage":"Bottomless"}}],"addOns":[{"name":"Compute overages","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"vCPU-second"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0002,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Storage","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.058,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Egress (same cloud)","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Egress (different cloud)","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.1,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Private networking","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.016,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"From $49/month. Free tier available. Usage-based compute and storage charges.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tinybird.co","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T12:42:50.637Z","startingPrice":{"amount":49,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | free | low |
| pricing.transparent | - | no |
| 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":"SOC 2 Type II","status":"active"}]` |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.pci | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 6.4 | - |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.trust_center | - | https://www.tinybird.co/docs/forward/compliance |
| 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 | Apache Hudi | Tinybird |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Managed cloud |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Architecture | Separated storage/compute | Serverless |
| Compute model | - | Serverless |
| **Query** |  |  |
| SQL dialect | - | - |
| Federation / lakehouse query-in-place | ✓ | - |
| **Interoperability** |  |  |
| Table-format support | Parquet with MOR support | - |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Concurrency scaling | - | - |
| **Ingestion** |  |  |
| Streaming ingest | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Data model** |  |  |
| Semi-structured (JSON/VARIANT) | Functional | - |
| **Analytics** |  |  |
| ML / in-DB functions | - | - |
| **Sharing** |  |  |
| Data sharing / marketplace | - | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Permissive OSS | - |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T18:56:24.160Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*