# Apache Iceberg vs SingleStore

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** SingleStore

| Attribute | Apache Iceberg | SingleStore |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 59.5 (56% (medium)) | 78.8 (68% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 1 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 9,326 | - |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 6,665,583 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Apache Iceberg is a table format that enables reliable, ACID-compliant SQL operations on big data. It allows multiple query engines—such as Spark, Trino, Flink, Hive, and Impala—to safely read and write the same tables concurrently, bringing traditional database semantics to analytics workloads. It is indexed under Data Warehouse Software.","source":"https://iceberg.apache.org","question":"What is Apache Iceberg?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Apache Iceberg 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://iceberg.apache.org","question":"Is Apache Iceberg free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Apache Iceberg can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://iceberg.apache.org","question":"Can Apache Iceberg be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 20 integrations for Apache Iceberg, including Spark, Trino, Presto, Flink, Hive, Impala, PyArrow and DuckDB, plus 12 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://iceberg.apache.org","question":"What does Apache Iceberg integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Apache Iceberg 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/iceberg","question":"Is Apache Iceberg open source?","confidence":0.95}]` | `[{"answer":"A high-performance distributed database that enables real-time data ingestion from and querying of Apache Iceberg data lakes without complex ETL tooling, supporting bi-directional data flow between the database and data lakes. It is indexed under Data Warehouse Software.","source":"https://www.singlestore.com","question":"What is SingleStore?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"SingleStore offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.02. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.singlestore.com","question":"Is SingleStore free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"SingleStore supports a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.singlestore.com","question":"What platforms does SingleStore support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. SingleStore can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.singlestore.com/pricing/","question":"Can SingleStore be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 16 integrations for SingleStore, including Kafka, Amazon S3, HDFS, MongoDB, Okta, Azure AD, Ping and Apache Iceberg, plus 8 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.singlestore.com","question":"What does SingleStore integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for SingleStore. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as SingleStore not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.singlestore.com/security/","question":"What security certifications does SingleStore have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"SingleStore is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://www.singlestore.com/pricing/","question":"Where is SingleStore available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A table format that brings SQL capabilities to large-scale analytical datasets and enables multiple computing engines to safely and concurrently query and modify the same tables. | SingleStore is a unified database platform that processes both transactions and analytics with low-latency query performance and high-volume data ingestion capabilities, including native Apache Iceberg integration for lakehouse connectivity. |
| features.capabilities | `{"deployment":"embedded","data_sharing":true,"license_class":"permissive","table_formats":"Iceberg (Parquet, ORC, Avro, Puffin data files)","semi_structured":"first_class","federation_query":true,"streaming_ingest":true,"concurrency_scaling":"automatic"}` | `{"deployment":"hybrid","sql_dialect":"vendor","architecture":"coupled_mpp","data_sharing":true,"license_class":"proprietary","semi_structured":"first_class","federation_query":true,"streaming_ingest":true}` |
| integrations.count | 20 | 8 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Spark"},{"name":"Trino"},{"name":"Presto"},{"name":"Flink"},{"name":"Hive"},{"name":"Impala"},{"name":"PyArrow"},{"name":"DuckDB"},{"name":"Polars"},{"name":"Pandas"},{"name":"Ray"},{"name":"Datafusion"},{"name":"BigQuery"},{"name":"SQLAlchemy"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"GCS"},{"name":"Azure Data Lake Storage"},{"name":"Hadoop"},{"name":"Kerberos"},{"name":"Thrift"},{"name":"Avro"},{"name":"Parquet"},{"name":"ORC"}]` | `[{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"HDFS"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"Okta"},{"name":"Azure AD"},{"name":"Ping"},{"name":"Apache Iceberg","native":true,"category":"data_integration","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"AWS Glue","native":true,"category":"data_catalog"},{"name":"AWS S3","native":true,"category":"storage"},{"name":"MySQL","native":true,"category":"database"},{"name":"Langchain","native":true,"category":"ai_ml"},{"name":"VS Code","native":true,"category":"ide"},{"name":"Metabase","category":"bi_analytics"},{"name":"Snowflake","category":"data_platform"},{"name":"Cloudera","category":"data_platform"},{"name":"node-mysql2","category":"driver"},{"name":"go-sql-driver/mysql","category":"driver"},{"name":"S3","native":true,"category":"storage","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Power BI","native":true,"category":"analytics","direction":"outbound"}]` |
| language.primary | Java | - |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| market.availability | - | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` | `{"cli":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","summary":"Open source, no licensing cost","sourceUrl":"https://iceberg.apache.org","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T08:32:59.428Z"}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free Workspace","summary":"Free","features":["Shared Workspace","All SQL and Programmability features","Monitoring","Self-support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Shared workspace for evaluation, development and non-production testing","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"Starts at $0.99/hr + $0.023/GB storage","features":["Read-replicas","All SQL and Programmability features","Database Branching","Monitoring (30-day)","99.9% SLA (1 AZ) or 99.99% SLA (2 AZ)","Standard Support"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"hour"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.99,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.023,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"For general-purpose production workloads","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Standard BYOC","summary":"Contact us for pricing","features":["Fully managed within customer VPC","Read-replicas","All SQL and Programmability features","Monitoring (30-day)","Standard Support"],"description":"Bring Your Own Cloud - fully managed within customer VPC","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Starts at $1.49/hr","features":["Online PITR","Smart DR","Audit Logging","CMEK","99.9% SLA (1 AZ) or 99.99% SLA (2 AZ)"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"hour"},"kind":"metered","amount":1.49,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Enhanced DR & security for customer-facing workloads","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free tier available. Usage-based with commitment options. Compute from $0.99/hr (Standard) or $1.49/hr (Enterprise); storage $0.023/GB. Includes $600 free credits for Standard.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.singlestore.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T12:41:44.172Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.023,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | - | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | free | low |
| pricing.transparent | - | no |
| release.cadence_days | 50 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/apache/iceberg/releases/tag/apache-iceberg-1.12.0","date":"2026-09-30T01:52:18Z","type":"stable","version":"apache-iceberg-1.12.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/iceberg/releases/tag/apache-iceberg-1.11.0","date":"2026-05-20T08:47:57Z","type":"stable","version":"apache-iceberg-1.11.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/iceberg/releases/tag/apache-iceberg-1.10.2","date":"2026-05-18T21:58:12Z","type":"stable","version":"apache-iceberg-1.10.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/iceberg/releases/tag/apache-iceberg-1.10.1","date":"2025-12-22T22:04:42Z","type":"stable","version":"apache-iceberg-1.10.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/iceberg/releases/tag/apache-iceberg-1.10.0","date":"2025-09-11T15:08:46Z","type":"stable","version":"apache-iceberg-1.10.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/iceberg/releases/tag/apache-iceberg-1.9.2","date":"2025-07-18T13:44:58Z","type":"stable","version":"apache-iceberg-1.9.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/iceberg/releases/tag/apache-iceberg-1.9.1","date":"2025-05-28T16:52:05Z","type":"stable","version":"apache-iceberg-1.9.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/iceberg/releases/tag/apache-iceberg-1.9.0","date":"2025-04-28T06:27:16Z","type":"stable","version":"apache-iceberg-1.9.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/iceberg/releases/tag/apache-iceberg-1.7.2","date":"2025-03-19T10:12:37Z","type":"stable","version":"apache-iceberg-1.7.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/iceberg/releases/tag/apache-iceberg-1.8.1","date":"2025-02-28T07:52:17Z","type":"stable","version":"apache-iceberg-1.8.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/iceberg/releases/tag/apache-iceberg-1.8.0","date":"2025-02-13T09:13:46Z","type":"stable","version":"apache-iceberg-1.8.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/iceberg/releases/tag/apache-iceberg-1.7.1","date":"2024-12-06T20:01:03Z","type":"stable","version":"apache-iceberg-1.7.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/iceberg/releases/tag/apache-iceberg-1.7.0","date":"2024-11-08T15:12:01Z","type":"stable","version":"apache-iceberg-1.7.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/iceberg/releases/tag/apache-iceberg-1.6.1","date":"2024-08-27T17:47:30Z","type":"stable","version":"apache-iceberg-1.6.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/iceberg/releases/tag/apache-iceberg-1.6.0","date":"2024-07-23T12:06:44Z","type":"stable","version":"apache-iceberg-1.6.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/iceberg/releases/tag/apache-iceberg-1.5.2","date":"2024-05-16T07:50:32Z","type":"stable","version":"apache-iceberg-1.5.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/iceberg/releases/tag/apache-iceberg-1.5.1","date":"2024-04-30T12:43:30Z","type":"stable","version":"apache-iceberg-1.5.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/iceberg/releases/tag/apache-iceberg-1.5.0","date":"2024-03-11T11:00:15Z","type":"stable","version":"apache-iceberg-1.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/iceberg/releases/tag/apache-iceberg-1.4.3","date":"2023-12-27T17:15:46Z","type":"stable","version":"apache-iceberg-1.4.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/iceberg/releases/tag/apache-iceberg-1.4.2","date":"2023-11-07T16:44:26Z","type":"stable","version":"apache-iceberg-1.4.2"}]` | - |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.99 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | - | `[{"name":"PCI DSS v4.0.1","status":"active"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.pci | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 7.9 | - |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=apache-iceberg&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | - |

## Capabilities (Data Warehouse Software)

| Capability | Apache Iceberg | SingleStore |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Embedded | Hybrid |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Architecture | - | Coupled MPP |
| Compute model | - | - |
| **Query** |  |  |
| SQL dialect | - | Vendor-specific |
| Federation / lakehouse query-in-place | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Interoperability** |  |  |
| Table-format support | Iceberg (Parquet, ORC, Avro, Puffin data files) | - |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Concurrency scaling | Automatic | - |
| **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 | Proprietary |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:04:02.032Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*