Tag: Compaction

All the articles with the tag "Compaction".

• 31 MIN READ•Jul 25, 2026

  Table Maintenance Stopped Being a Product

  Iceberg table maintenance commoditized when every platform started shipping it. What the six operations are, what they cost, and the observability you should keep even when the work is managed.

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• 24 MIN READ•May 22, 2026

  Maintaining Apache Iceberg Tables: Compaction, Snapshot Expiration, and Orphan File Cleanup

  An in-depth guide to orchestrating maintenance operations on Apache Iceberg tables, covering bin-packing, sort-based, Z-Order compaction, snapshot expiration, and orphan file removal, with query acceleration details for the Dremio engine.

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• 7 MIN READ•Apr 29, 2026

  Maintaining Apache Iceberg Tables: Compaction, Expiry, and Cleanup

  Keep Iceberg tables fast with compaction, snapshot expiry, orphan cleanup, and manifest rewriting. Here is when and how to run each operation.

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