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Attribute Apache ORC Delta Lake
Name Apache ORC Delta Lake
Description ORC is a self-describing type-aware columnar file format designed for Hadoop workloads. Delta Lake is an open-source storage framework that enables building a Lakehouse architecture.
License Apache license 2.0 Apache license 2.0
Source code https://github.com/apache/orc https://github.com/delta-io/delta
Website https://orc.apache.org/ https://delta.io/
Year created 2013 2019
Company Hortonworks, Facebook Databricks
Language support java, scala, c++, python scala, java, python, rust
Use cases Write once read many, Analytics, Efficient storage, ACID transactions Write once read many, Analytics, Efficient storage, ACID transactions
Is human readable
no
no
Orientation row column
Has type system
yes
yes
Has nested structure support
yes
yes
Has native compression
yes
yes
Has encoding support
yes
yes
Has constraint support
no
yes
Has acid support
no
yes
Has metadata
yes
yes
Has encryption support
yes
maybe
Data processing framework support Apache Flink, Apache Gobblin, Apache Hadoop, Apache NiFi, Apache Pig, Apache Spark, Apache Drill, Apache Flink, Apache Spark,
Analytics query support Apache Impala, Apache Druid, Apache Hive, Apache Pinot, AWS Athena, BigQuery, Clickhouse, Firebolt, Presto, Trino, Apache Hive, AWS Athena, Azure Synapse, BigQuery, Clickhouse, Dremio, Presto, Trino,