# Apache Iceberg vs Presto

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Apache Iceberg

| Attribute | Apache Iceberg | Presto |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 62.2 (56% (medium)) | 54.6 (33% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 1 | 441 |
| adoption.github_stars | 9,176 | 16,724 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 11,384,061 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | The fastest open-source SQL query engine for modern data analytics at scale. Enables querying massive datasets across multiple data sources with sub-second performance. |
| 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":"separated","license_class":"permissive","semi_structured":"functional","federation_query":true}` |
| integrations.count | 20 | - |
| 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"}]` | - |
| language.primary | Java | Java |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| 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","summary":"Free and open source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://prestodb.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T12:41:36.983Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | - | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| release.cadence_days | 50 | 47 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | 7.9 | 5 |
| 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":2,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=com.facebook.presto%3Apresto-jdbc&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` |

## Capabilities (Data Warehouse Software)

| Capability | Apache Iceberg | Presto |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Embedded | Self-hosted |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Architecture | - | Separated storage/compute |
| Compute model | - | - |
| **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 | Functional |
| **Analytics** |  |  |
| ML / in-DB functions | - | - |
| **Sharing** |  |  |
| Data sharing / marketplace | ✓ | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Permissive OSS | Permissive OSS |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:26:43.818Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*