# Apache Hudi vs Delta Lake

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Delta Lake

| Attribute | Apache Hudi | Delta Lake |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 49.7 (57% (medium)) | 64.7 (58% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 358 | 152 |
| adoption.github_stars | 6,219 | 8,960 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 8,142 | 8,577,014 |
| deployment.options | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | An open-source storage framework enabling lakehouse architecture with support for multiple compute engines including Spark, Flink, Trino, Snowflake, BigQuery, and others. |
| features.capabilities | `{"deployment":"self","architecture":"separated","license_class":"permissive","table_formats":"Parquet with MOR support","semi_structured":"functional","federation_query":true}` | `{"deployment":"self","architecture":"separated","data_sharing":true,"license_class":"permissive","table_formats":"Delta, Iceberg, Hudi","federation_query":true,"streaming_ingest":true}` |
| integrations.count | 7 | 29 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"AWS Glue"},{"name":"Apache Spark"},{"name":"Apache Flink"},{"name":"Trino"},{"name":"Presto"},{"name":"Apache Hive"},{"name":"Apicurio Registry"}]` | `[{"name":"Apache Spark"},{"name":"Apache Flink"},{"name":"Apache Hive"},{"name":"Apache Pulsar"},{"name":"Apache Druid"},{"name":"ClickHouse"},{"name":"Trino"},{"name":"PrestoDB"},{"name":"StarRocks"},{"name":"RisingWave"},{"name":"Dagster"},{"name":"Hopsworks"},{"name":"MLflow"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"AWS Athena"},{"name":"AWS EMR"},{"name":"AWS Glue"},{"name":"Azure Stream Analytics"},{"name":"Google BigQuery"},{"name":"Snowflake"},{"name":"Databricks"},{"name":"AWS Redshift"},{"name":"Microsoft Fabric"},{"name":"Power BI"},{"name":"Starburst"},{"name":"Oracle"},{"name":"Excel"},{"name":"FINOS Legend"},{"name":"Kotosiro"}]` |
| language.primary | Java | Scala |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | - | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"linux":true}` | - |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://hudi.apache.org","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T08:37:26.336Z"}` | `{"type":"open_source","sourceUrl":"https://delta.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T08:32:59.229Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | - |
| pricing.model | open_source | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| release.cadence_days | 61 | 50 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| security.scorecard | 6.5 | 6.2 |
| 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}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=io.delta%3Adelta-standalone_2.12&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Data Warehouse Software)

| Capability | Apache Hudi | Delta Lake |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Self-hosted |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Architecture | Separated storage/compute | Separated storage/compute |
| Compute model | - | - |
| **Query** |  |  |
| SQL dialect | - | - |
| Federation / lakehouse query-in-place | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Interoperability** |  |  |
| Table-format support | Parquet with MOR support | Delta, Iceberg, Hudi |
| **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 | Permissive OSS |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:30:45.013Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*