Comparison

Delta Lake vs Trino

On the evidence we track, Delta Lake leads this comparison with a composite score of 65/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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Delta Lake65
Trino52
Score
Vioscale score
Delta Lake65 / 100medium · 58%
Trino52 / 100medium · 54%
Pricing
Free tier
Delta Lake
Trino
Model
Delta Lakeopen_source
Price level
Delta Lakefree
Trinofree
Transparent
Delta Lake
Trino
Integrations
Count
Delta Lake29
Trino18
Adoption
Dependent repos
Delta Lake152
Trino468
Github stars
Delta Lake8,960
Trino13,183
Package downloads weekly
Delta Lake8,577,014
Trino
Activity
Commits last 30d
Delta Lake100
Trino100
Release
Cadence days
Delta Lake50
Trino45
History
Delta Lake20 items
Trino7 items
License
Spdx
Delta LakeApache-2.0
Language
Primary
Delta LakeScala
TrinoJava
Market
Availability

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for data warehouse software. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Deployment
Deployment
Delta LakeSelf-hosted
TrinoSelf-hosted
Architecture
Architecture
Delta LakeSeparated storage/compute
TrinoCoupled MPP
Compute model
Delta Lake-
TrinoClusters
Query
SQL dialect
Delta Lake-
TrinoANSI SQL
Federation / lakehouse query-in-place
Delta Lake
Trino
Interoperability
Table-format support
Delta LakeDelta, Iceberg, Hudi
Trino-
Scale
Concurrency scaling
Delta Lake-
Trino-
Ingestion
Streaming ingest
Delta Lake
Trino-
Data model
Semi-structured (JSON/VARIANT)
Delta Lake-
Trino-
Analytics
ML / in-DB functions
Delta Lake-
Trino-
Sharing
Data sharing / marketplace
Delta Lake
Trino-
Licensing
Licence class
Delta LakePermissive OSS
TrinoPermissive OSS

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Delta Lake

Leader

An open-source storage framework enabling lakehouse architecture with support for multiple compute engines including Spark, Flink, Trino, Snowflake, BigQuery, and others.

Independently observed

Trino

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.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Delta Lake

Leader
Open source
as of verify ↗

Trino

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
CLI
Delta Lake
Trino
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Delta Lake
Trino
Self-hosted
Delta Lake
Trino
On-premise
Delta Lake
Trino

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (1)
  • Power BI

Delta Lake

Leader
29 total - 28 not shared
  • Apache Spark
  • Apache Flink
  • Apache Hive
  • Apache Pulsar
  • Apache Druid
  • ClickHouse
  • Trino
  • PrestoDB
  • StarRocks
  • RisingWave
  • Dagster
  • Hopsworks
  • MLflow
  • Kafka
  • AWS Athena
  • AWS EMR
  • AWS Glue
  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Google BigQuery
  • Snowflake
  • Databricks
  • AWS Redshift
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Starburst
  • +4 more
Independently observed

Trino

18 total - 17 not shared
  • Grafana
  • Apache Airflow
  • Apache DolphinScheduler
  • Coginiti
  • Cube
  • DBeaver
  • dbt
  • DbVisualizer
  • Emacs
  • Tableau
  • Superset
  • R
  • Hadoop
  • S3
  • Cassandra
  • MySQL
  • Elasticsearch
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.