LakeSoul

license

Apache-2.0(OSI)

source

public

core-gated

ungated

Apache-2.0 license body confirmed at the repository root (the repository also carries REUSE-convention SPDX headers on individual files, but a root LICENSE exists and is the verbatim Apache-2.0 text). The repository is public and unarchived and builds the whole framework, and the README describes no paid tier, enterprise edition or license-gated build beside it.

• https://github.com/lakesoul-io/LakeSoul/blob/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-09-02

  LICENSE file at the repository root is the verbatim Apache-2.0 text.

• https://api.github.com/repos/lakesoul-io/LakeSoul recorded 2026-09-02

  Repo metadata - license spdx_id Apache-2.0, private false, archived false, default branch main - for lakesoul-io/LakeSoul.

• https://github.com/lakesoul-io/LakeSoul/blob/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-02

  README describes a batteries-included lakehouse platform with no paid tier, enterprise edition or license-key-gated build beside the Apache-2.0 framework.

3,248 GitHub stars, which lands in the 1K-10K stars band of the stars scale, level 2. LakeSoul ships as a table format consumed through Spark, Flink, Presto, Ray, Daft and PyArrow rather than a single installable package, and no deployment count is published, which leaves the stars scale and its cap of 3.

• https://api.github.com/repos/lakesoul-io/LakeSoul recorded 2026-09-02

  Repo metadata - stargazers_count = 3,248 - for lakesoul-io/LakeSoul.

Banded on the category feature matrix as complete retrieval system, distributed or cluster-capable. Placed one band below the vespa anchor, alongside juicefs - LakeSoul owns its own metadata management, transaction log and compaction service rather than versioning storage it does not provide, which distinguishes it from lakefs and dvc at the band below. It supports vector retrieval as a file-format capability rather than hosting a ranking or embedding model in a serving path, so it does not reach the top rung.

• https://github.com/lakesoul-io/LakeSoul/blob/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-02

  README documents a distributed, ACID-transactional lakehouse with its own metadata management and compaction service, shared across six compute engines.