# Apache Iceberg vs Trino

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Apache Iceberg

| Attribute | Apache Iceberg | Trino |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 59.5 (56% (medium)) | 50.7 (54% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 1 | 468 |
| adoption.github_stars | 9,326 | 13,330 |
| 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":"An open-source SQL query engine built for fast, distributed analytics over large-scale datasets stored in multiple systems. It enables users to query data in place without copying, supporting interactive analytics workloads from single queries to high-volume applications. It is indexed under Data Warehouse Software.","source":"https://trino.io","question":"What is Trino?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Trino 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://trino.io","question":"Is Trino free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Trino supports a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://trino.io","question":"What platforms does Trino support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Trino can be deployed cloud / SaaS, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://trino.io","question":"Can Trino be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 17 integrations for Trino, including Grafana, Apache Airflow, Apache DolphinScheduler, Coginiti, Cube, DBeaver, dbt and DbVisualizer, plus 9 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://trino.io","question":"What does Trino integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Trino 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/trinodb/trino","question":"Is Trino open source?","confidence":0.95}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"self_hosted":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. | Trino is an open-source SQL query engine designed for fast analytics on big data. It enables distributed querying across multiple data sources and integrates with numerous data processing, visualization, and analytics tools. |
| 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":"self","sql_dialect":"ansi","architecture":"coupled_mpp","compute_model":"clusters","license_class":"permissive","federation_query":true}` |
| integrations.count | 20 | 10 |
| 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":"Grafana"},{"name":"Apache Airflow"},{"name":"Apache DolphinScheduler"},{"name":"Coginiti"},{"name":"Cube"},{"name":"DBeaver"},{"name":"dbt"},{"name":"DbVisualizer"},{"name":"Emacs"},{"name":"Tableau"},{"name":"Power BI"},{"name":"Superset"},{"name":"R"},{"name":"Hadoop"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"Cassandra"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"Fugue","category":"data_processing"},{"name":"Logi Symphony","category":"analytics"},{"name":"Mitzu","category":"product_analytics"},{"name":"DolphinScheduler","category":"workflow_scheduling"},{"name":"Cognos Analytics","category":"business_intelligence"},{"name":"MicroStrategy","category":"business_intelligence"},{"name":"JupySQL","category":"notebooks"},{"name":"SQuirrel SQL","category":"database_client"},{"name":"Zing Data","category":"analytics"},{"name":"Trino CLI","native":true,"category":"client"}]` |
| language.primary | Java | Java |
| 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}` | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","summary":"Open source, no licensing cost","sourceUrl":"https://iceberg.apache.org","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T08:32:59.428Z"}` | `{"type":"open_source","sourceUrl":"https://trino.io","retrievedAt":"2026-10-13T15:15:20.514Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | - | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| pricing.transparent | - | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 50 | 45 |
| 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"}]` | `[{"url":"https://github.com/trinodb/trino/releases/tag/483","date":"2026-07-18T01:28:57Z","type":"stable","version":"483"},{"url":"https://github.com/trinodb/trino/releases/tag/482","date":"2026-06-25T19:22:28Z","type":"stable","version":"482"},{"url":"https://github.com/trinodb/trino/releases/tag/481","date":"2026-05-12T01:03:57Z","type":"stable","version":"481"},{"url":"https://github.com/trinodb/trino/releases/tag/480","date":"2026-03-24T23:06:31Z","type":"stable","version":"480"},{"url":"https://github.com/trinodb/trino/releases/tag/479","date":"2025-12-15T03:19:30Z","type":"stable","version":"479"},{"url":"https://github.com/trinodb/trino/releases/tag/478","date":"2025-10-29T18:42:57Z","type":"stable","version":"478"},{"url":"https://github.com/trinodb/trino/releases/tag/477","date":"2025-09-25T00:32:51Z","type":"stable","version":"477"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | 7.9 | 5.6 |
| 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}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=io.trino%3Atrino-jdbc&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Data Warehouse Software)

| Capability | Apache Iceberg | Trino |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Embedded | Self-hosted |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Architecture | - | Coupled MPP |
| Compute model | - | Clusters |
| **Query** |  |  |
| SQL dialect | - | ANSI SQL |
| 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 | - |
| **Analytics** |  |  |
| ML / in-DB functions | - | - |
| **Sharing** |  |  |
| Data sharing / marketplace | ✓ | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Permissive OSS | Permissive OSS |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T21:23:53.608Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*