Tag: Apache Iceberg
All the articles with the tag "Apache Iceberg".
What is Apache Iceberg? The Table Format Revolution
Published: at 12:00 PMIf you drop ten thousand Parquet files into an S3 bucket, you have a data swamp. You do not have a database. To run SQL queries against those files sa...
What is Apache Parquet? Columns, Encoding, and Performance
Published: at 12:00 PMIf you ask a data analyst to calculate the average transaction amount for the month of July using a massive CSV file, the compute engine must read eve...
What is Apache Polaris? Unifying the Iceberg Ecosystem
Published: at 12:00 PMTreating thousands of Parquet files as a unified database table requires a brain. Apache Iceberg provides the metadata structure to do this, but the I...