# Apache Druid vs Apache Iceberg

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Apache Iceberg

| Attribute | Apache Druid | Apache Iceberg |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 48.2 (54% (medium)) | 62.2 (56% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 264 | 1 |
| adoption.github_stars | 14,045 | 9,176 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 11,384,061 |
| deployment.options | `{"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Apache Druid is an open source analytics database designed for fast queries and real-time data ingestion. It excels at powering UIs, running operational queries, and handling high concurrency. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"deployment":"self","sql_dialect":"vendor","compute_model":"clusters","license_class":"permissive","streaming_ingest":true}` | `{"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"}` |
| integrations.count | 2 | 20 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Apache Kafka"},{"name":"Amazon Kinesis"}]` | `[{"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"}]` |
| language.primary | Java | Java |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | - |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","summary":"Open source, free to use and deploy","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://druid.apache.org","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T16:48:48.287Z"}` | `{"type":"open_source","summary":"Open source, no licensing cost","sourceUrl":"https://iceberg.apache.org","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T08:32:59.428Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | - |
| pricing.model | open_source | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | - |
| release.cadence_days | 61 | 50 |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/apache/druid/releases/tag/druid-37.0.0","date":"2026-05-08T22:00:21Z","type":"stable","version":"druid-37.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/druid/releases/tag/druid-36.0.0","date":"2026-02-09T14:50:03Z","type":"stable","version":"druid-36.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/druid/releases/tag/druid-35.0.1","date":"2025-12-15T20:23:38Z","type":"stable","version":"druid-35.0.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/druid/releases/tag/druid-35.0.0","date":"2025-11-18T04:34:00Z","type":"stable","version":"druid-35.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/druid/releases/tag/druid-34.0.0","date":"2025-08-11T15:12:41Z","type":"stable","version":"druid-34.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/druid/releases/tag/druid-33.0.0","date":"2025-04-29T13:10:12Z","type":"stable","version":"druid-33.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/druid/releases/tag/druid-32.0.1","date":"2025-03-19T16:07:37Z","type":"stable","version":"druid-32.0.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/druid/releases/tag/druid-31.0.2","date":"2025-03-19T16:07:28Z","type":"stable","version":"druid-31.0.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/druid/releases/tag/druid-32.0.0","date":"2025-02-13T08:00:18Z","type":"stable","version":"druid-32.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/druid/releases/tag/druid-31.0.1","date":"2024-12-25T05:42:25Z","type":"stable","version":"druid-31.0.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/druid/releases/tag/druid-31.0.0","date":"2024-10-22T18:15:53Z","type":"stable","version":"druid-31.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/druid/releases/tag/druid-30.0.1","date":"2024-09-17T17:10:51Z","type":"stable","version":"druid-30.0.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/druid/releases/tag/druid-30.0.0","date":"2024-06-17T03:03:30Z","type":"stable","version":"druid-30.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/druid/releases/tag/druid-29.0.1","date":"2024-04-03T05:02:18Z","type":"stable","version":"druid-29.0.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/druid/releases/tag/druid-29.0.0","date":"2024-02-21T05:51:52Z","type":"stable","version":"druid-29.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/druid/releases/tag/druid-28.0.1","date":"2023-12-21T11:24:37Z","type":"stable","version":"druid-28.0.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/druid/releases/tag/druid-28.0.0","date":"2023-11-15T10:19:54Z","type":"stable","version":"druid-28.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/druid/releases/tag/druid-27.0.0","date":"2023-08-11T09:28:58Z","type":"stable","version":"druid-27.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/druid/releases/tag/druid-26.0.0","date":"2023-05-24T00:40:26Z","type":"stable","version":"druid-26.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/druid/releases/tag/druid-25.0.0","date":"2023-01-04T07:43:44Z","type":"stable","version":"druid-25.0.0"}]` | 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|
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 7.4 | 7.9 |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.apache.druid%3Adruid-processing&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | `{"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 Druid | Apache Iceberg |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Embedded |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Architecture | - | - |
| Compute model | Clusters | - |
| **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 |
| **Analytics** |  |  |
| ML / in-DB functions | - | - |
| **Sharing** |  |  |
| Data sharing / marketplace | - | ✓ |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Permissive OSS | Permissive OSS |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T15:04:41.379Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*