Big Data Vendors Introduce Apache Iceberg Features In Same Week
The Register, Monday, October 14th, 2024
Market rivals settle on open table format, while Microsoft and Databricks go their own way
Apache Iceberg has secured renewed momentum in the last week after leading vendors in data warehousing and analytics all announced new features around the open source table format.
AWS, Cloudera, Google, and Snowflake came out in support of Apache Iceberg. Iceberg faces off contenders including Databricks' Delta Lake - also an open source Linux Foundation project - and Apache Hudi. They are all battling to become the standard table format, allowing users to query data with an analytics engine of their choice without moving it.