Tag:Apache Iceberg
Articles tagged "Apache Iceberg", page 2.
- 31 MIN READ•Sep 10, 2026
What Iceberg Table Maintenance Actually Costs
A cost model for compaction, snapshot expiry, orphan cleanup, and manifest rewriting: what each operation spends, on which meter, and how to set a schedule.
Apache Icebergtable maintenancecompaction - 30 MIN READ•Sep 10, 2026
Running an Iceberg Lakehouse on Kubernetes
Catalog, maintenance, and compaction as Kubernetes workloads: scheduling classes, job structure, credential flow, and the failures that come from the interaction.
KubernetesApache IcebergApache Polaris - 31 MIN READ•Sep 10, 2026
Partition Statistics Files in Apache Iceberg
The underused Iceberg metadata for planning: what the partition statistics file holds, what the spec guarantees, how to write one, and when it earns its slot.
Apache Icebergquery planningmetadata - 30 MIN READ•Sep 10, 2026
What to Assert When You Test an Iceberg Pipeline
Fixtures, in-memory catalogs, and golden metadata: the assertions that catch wrong rows, unsafe reruns, schema drift, and concurrent-write corruption in CI.
Apache IcebergtestingCI - 31 MIN READ•Sep 10, 2026
The 2026 Iceberg REST Catalog Compatibility Report
A repeatable test for what an Iceberg REST catalog actually serves, a scoring scheme that separates design from breakage, and the 2026 evidence across seven catalogs.
Iceberg REST catalogcatalog compatibilityApache Polaris - 31 MIN READ•Sep 10, 2026
Serving Iceberg Tables From Two Regions
Three multi-region topologies that work and one that mostly does not, what an Iceberg commit costs across regions, and where the catalog has to live.
Apache Icebergmulti-regionreplication - 31 MIN READ•Sep 10, 2026
How Iceberg Catalogs Hand Engines Storage Access
Credential vending end to end: the wire protocol, scoped access on each cloud, remote signing, credential lifetime on long jobs, and failures that look like bugs.
credential vendingApache IcebergApache Polaris - 31 MIN READ•Sep 10, 2026
Kafka Connect to Iceberg: How the Commit Actually Works
Exactly-once semantics in the Iceberg sink connector: the coordinator, the control topic, offsets stored inside Iceberg snapshots, and where duplicates still get in.
Apache KafkaKafka ConnectApache Iceberg - 31 MIN READ•Sep 10, 2026
The Open Lakehouse Explained, Then Built on Your Laptop with Dremio and MinIO
The five layers of the open lakehouse explained, then a lab: Parquet, Iceberg, Polaris, Arrow, and Ossie running in two containers on your own machine.
open lakehouseApache IcebergApache Polaris - 31 MIN READ•Sep 10, 2026
Where Lock-In Went
The format war ended and exit cost did not: where lock-in relocated after open tables won, how to measure it, and which costs are worth keeping down.
vendor lock-inopen formatsApache Iceberg - 30 MIN READ•Sep 2, 2026
dbt on Iceberg: Incremental Models on Open Tables
How dbt incremental materializations map to Iceberg operations, and the configuration, predicates, and maintenance that keep them healthy.
dbtApache IcebergIncremental Models - 30 MIN READ•Sep 2, 2026
Disaster Recovery for Iceberg Tables: Replication, Backup, and Restore
Disaster recovery for Iceberg across four tiers: snapshots, object versioning, catalog backup, and cross-region replication.
Apache IcebergDisaster RecoveryReplication