# Chalk vs Feast

| Attribute | Chalk | Feast |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 8.7 (3% (low)) | 55.5 (28% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 73 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 140 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 7,230 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Chalk is an infrastructure platform that provides feature engineering, real-time serving, and model management capabilities for machine learning applications. It enables teams to build production ML systems with sub-millisecond latency and works within your own cloud environment. | A framework that manages feature data pipelines and serves structured features to machine learning models during both training and real-time inference at scale. |
| integrations.count | 1 | 21 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Databricks"}]` | `[{"name":"Apache Iceberg"},{"name":"Databricks"},{"name":"Snowflake"},{"name":"AWS Glue"},{"name":"AWS EMR"},{"name":"Unity Catalog"},{"name":"Hadoop"},{"name":"DynamoDB"},{"name":"Redis"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"Milvus"},{"name":"ClickHouse"},{"name":"FAISS"},{"name":"Apache Spark"},{"name":"MLflow"},{"name":"OpenLineage"},{"name":"dbt"},{"name":"Amundsen"},{"name":"DataHub"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Python |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | - | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://feast.dev","retrievedAt":"2026-08-20T16:33:03.494Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | - | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | - | free |
| release.cadence_days | - | 25 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/releases/tag/v0.66.0","date":"2026-08-21T03:31:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.66.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/releases/tag/v0.65.0","date":"2026-07-20T13:28:11Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.65.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/releases/tag/v0.64.0","date":"2026-06-13T11:22:15Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.64.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/releases/tag/v0.63.0","date":"2026-05-04T03:44:33Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.63.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/releases/tag/v0.62.0","date":"2026-04-08T14:26:38Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.62.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/releases/tag/v0.61.0","date":"2026-03-10T20:00:19Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.61.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/releases/tag/v0.60.0","date":"2026-02-17T13:52:47Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.60.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/releases/tag/v0.59.0","date":"2026-01-16T21:11:22Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.59.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/releases/tag/v0.58.0","date":"2025-12-16T17:51:30Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.58.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/releases/tag/v0.57.0","date":"2025-11-13T20:26:30Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.57.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/releases/tag/v0.56.0","date":"2025-10-27T20:28:47Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.56.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/releases/tag/v0.55.0","date":"2025-10-14T14:37:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.55.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/releases/tag/v0.54.0","date":"2025-09-30T12:39:46Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.54.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/releases/tag/v0.53.0","date":"2025-08-30T03:55:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.53.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/releases/tag/v0.52.0","date":"2025-08-14T13:19:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.52.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/releases/tag/v0.51.0","date":"2025-07-21T20:53:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.51.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/releases/tag/v0.50.0","date":"2025-07-01T03:10:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.50.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/releases/tag/v0.49.0","date":"2025-04-29T13:15:59Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.49.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/releases/tag/v0.48.1","date":"2025-04-08T17:38:35Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.48.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/releases/tag/v0.48.0","date":"2025-04-07T18:33:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.48.0"}]` |
| security.scorecard | - | 5.7 |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":2,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=feast&per_page=100","last_12m":1,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` |

## Capabilities (Feature Stores)

| Capability | Chalk | Feast |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Point in time correctness | - | - |
| Feature registry catalog | - | - |
| Streaming features | - | - |
| On demand transforms | - | - |
| Deployment model | - | - |
| Drift monitoring | - | - |
| Embeddings vector support | - | - |
| Multi cloud | - | - |
| RBAC governance | - | - |
| Lineage tracking | - | - |
| Pricing model | - | - |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:54:13.015Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*