Iceberg Catalog API

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From Data Swamps to Reliable Data Systems: How Iceberg Brought 40 Years of Database Wisdom to Data Lakes

From Data Swamps to Reliable Data Systems: How Iceberg Brought 40 Years of Database Wisdom to Data Lakes

The data lake was once heralded as the future, an infinitely scalable reservoir for all our raw data, promising to transform it into actionable insights. This was a logical progression from databases and data warehouses, each step driven by the increasing demand for scalability. Yet, in embracing the data lake's scale and flexibility, we overlooked a critical difference.

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The Case for Native Iceberg Catalog APIs and Unified Governance in Object Storage

The Case for Native Iceberg Catalog APIs and Unified Governance in Object Storage

Apache Iceberg is significantly transforming modern data lakes. Its introduction to object storage platforms has been celebrated for delivering ACID transactions, strong schema evolution, and warehouse-like reliability to data lake architectures. The Iceberg Catalog API standard is crucial to this transformation, as it ensures that various tools can consistently discover tables and execute atomic transactions once a compliant catalog service

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