# Feast vs Vertex AI Feature Store

| Attribute | Feast | Vertex AI Feature Store |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 55.5 (28% (low)) | 13.7 (3% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 73 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 140 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 7,230 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | A framework that manages feature data pipelines and serves structured features to machine learning models during both training and real-time inference at scale. | Vertex AI Feature Store provides centralized feature management capabilities by layering metadata and online serving functionality on top of BigQuery datasets. It enables teams to store, discover, share, and serve ML features without duplicating data, while supporting embeddings and vector similarity searches. |
| integrations.count | 21 | 2 |
| integrations.list | `[{"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"}]` | `[{"name":"BigQuery"},{"name":"Knowledge Catalog"}]` |
| language.primary | Python | - |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| platform.support | `{"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 | open_source | commercial |
| 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 | Feast | Vertex AI Feature Store |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **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 2026-09-01T16:33:57.347Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*