Tag: shredding

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• 31 MIN READ•Aug 24, 2026

  Variant Shredding Explained: How Iceberg Gets Columnar Performance From Messy JSON

  Variant shredding turns messy JSON into Parquet columns with statistics. How the layout works, how readers reassemble values, and why some queries prune.

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