-werners-
Esteemed Contributor III

AFAIK Hive SerDe is just Serializer and Deserializer (write and read data to/from storage).

Hive uses SerDe (and FileFormat) to read and write table rows. So it is not an actual file format like parquet, orc and also delta lake (which I consider a separate file format even though it is parquet on steroids).

So the comparison with delta lake is kinda awkward.

A better comparison would be Delta Lake vs Iceberg or Hudi.

https://databricks.com/session_na20/a-thorough-comparison-of-delta-lake-iceberg-and-hudi