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Lakehouse table formats

Open table formats that add transactions, schema evolution and time travel to files on object storage.

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Lakehouse table formats
ToolStarsLicenceTermsSelf-hostedLanguageLatestLast push
Apache Iceberg9.3kApache-2.0Open sourceNoJavaapache-iceberg-1.12.02026-10-06
Delta Lake9kApache-2.0Open sourceNoScalav4.4.12026-10-06
Lance7.1kApache-2.0Open sourceNoRustv12.0.02026-10-06
Apache Hudi6.3kApache-2.0Open sourceNoJavarelease-1.2.12026-10-06
Apache Paimon3.4kApache-2.0Open sourceNoJavarelease-2.0.02026-10-06

5 tools

Delta Lake

An open-source storage framework that enables building a Lakehouse architecture with compute engines including Spark, PrestoDB, Flink, Trino, and Hive and APIs

Language
Scala
Licence
Apache-2.0
Stars
9k
Latest
v4.4.1
Last push
2026-10-06
Lance

Open Lakehouse Format for Multimodal AI. Convert from Parquet in 2 lines of code for 100x faster random access, vector index, and data versioning. Compatible with Pandas, DuckDB, Polars, Pyarrow, and PyTorch with more integrations coming..

Language
Rust
Licence
Apache-2.0
Stars
7.1k
Latest
v12.0.0
Last push
2026-10-06
Apache Paimon

Apache Paimon is a lake format that enables building a Realtime Lakehouse Architecture with Flink and Spark for both streaming and batch operations.

Language
Java
Licence
Apache-2.0
Stars
3.4k
Latest
release-2.0.0
Last push
2026-10-06