Apache Hudi

aid: apache-hudi
name: Apache Hudi
description: Apache Hudi is a data lake platform that provides incremental data processing primitives including upserts and
  incremental queries. It manages storage of large analytical datasets on distributed file systems with ACID transactions,
  timeline-based versioning, and integrations for Spark, Flink, and Hive.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/apache-hudi.png
tags:
- ACID
- Apache
- Big Data
- Data Lake
- Incremental Processing
- Lakehouse
- Open Source
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-05-19'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/apache-hudi/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: apache-hudi:apache-hudi-java-api
  name: Apache Hudi Java API
  description: Java API for writing Hudi tables with upserts, inserts, and deletes, plus timeline management, compaction,
    and Spark/Flink DataSource integration APIs.
  humanURL: https://hudi.apache.org/docs/writing_data
  tags:
  - Java
  - SDK
  - Spark
  - Flink
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hudi.apache.org/docs/writing_data
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://search.maven.org/artifact/org.apache.hudi/hudi-spark3.5-bundle_2.12
    title: Java SDK (Maven Central)
- aid: apache-hudi:apache-hudi-tables-api
  name: Apache Hudi Tables API
  description: Hudi table management operations
  humanURL: https://hudi.apache.org/docs/timeline
  baseURL: http://localhost:9090
  tags:
  - Tables
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/apache-hudi-tables-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hudi.apache.org/docs/timeline
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/hudi-huditableconfig-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/apache-hudi-timeline-context.jsonld
- aid: apache-hudi:apache-hudi-timeline-api
  name: Apache Hudi Timeline API
  description: Hudi timeline and commit operations
  humanURL: https://hudi.apache.org/docs/timeline
  baseURL: http://localhost:9090
  tags:
  - Timeline
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/apache-hudi-timeline-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hudi.apache.org/docs/timeline
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/hudi-huditableconfig-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/apache-hudi-timeline-context.jsonld
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/apache-hudi-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/apache-hudi-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/apache-hudi-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/apache-hudi
- type: Documentation
  url: https://hudi.apache.org/docs/overview
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://hudi.apache.org/docs/quick-start-guide
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/apache
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/apache/hudi
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/apache-hudi-spectral-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/apache-hudi-vocabulary.yaml
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: ACID Upserts
    description: Atomically insert or update records in data lake tables with ACID guarantees using record keys.
  - name: Hudi Timeline
    description: Immutable commit timeline tracking all mutations for time travel, rollback, and incremental queries.
  - name: Incremental Queries
    description: Query only the data changed since a given commit timestamp for efficient streaming ingestion.
  - name: Copy-On-Write Tables
    description: COW table type rewrites entire Parquet files on upsert for read-optimized query performance.
  - name: Merge-On-Read Tables
    description: MOR table type appends delta logs for fast writes with compaction-based read optimization.
  - name: Table Services
    description: Built-in cleaning, compaction, clustering, and indexing services for table maintenance.
  - name: Multi-Engine Support
    description: Read and write Hudi tables from Apache Spark, Flink, Hive, Presto, Trino, and Athena.
  - name: Schema Evolution
    description: Support for adding, renaming, and dropping columns with backward-compatible schema evolution.
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: CDC Pipeline Ingestion
    description: Ingest change data capture (CDC) events from databases into data lake tables with upsert support.
  - name: Streaming Data Lake
    description: Build near-real-time data lake pipelines with Spark Structured Streaming or Flink.
  - name: Data Lake Maintenance
    description: Manage storage costs with automated cleaning, compaction, and clustering of Hudi tables.
  - name: Incremental ETL
    description: Build incremental ETL pipelines that process only changed data since the last run.
  - name: Regulatory Data Retention
    description: Implement GDPR right-to-erasure by deleting records from Hudi tables with delete operations.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: Apache Spark
    description: Primary write and read engine with Hudi DataSource and Spark SQL extensions.
  - name: Apache Flink
    description: Flink sink and source connectors for streaming writes and incremental reads.
  - name: Apache Hive
    description: Hive Metastore sync for making Hudi tables queryable from HiveQL.
  - name: Presto / Trino
    description: Native Hudi input format support for querying Hudi tables from Presto and Trino.
  - name: AWS Athena
    description: Athena supports reading Hudi COW and MOR tables stored in Amazon S3.
- type: Integrations
  url: https://hudi.apache.org/ecosystem/
- url: https://hudi.apache.org/blog/rss.xml
  type: Blog
integrations:
- name: Apache Hudi
- name: Apache Hudiâ¢
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: info@apievangelist.com