The Database Doctor
Musing about Databases

Tag: data‑structures

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Iceberg, The Right Idea - The Wrong Spec - Part 2 of 2: The Spec

Let us finally look at what is so wrong with the Iceberg spec and why this simply isn't a serious attempt at solving the metadata problem of large Data Lakes. In the first part of this I took...

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Iceberg, The Right Idea - The Wrong Spec - Part 1 of 2: History

Iceberg: The great unifying vision finally allowing us to escape the vendor lock-in of our database engines. One table and metadata format to find them ... And in the darkness bind I the...

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Why are Databases so Hard to Make? Part 3 - High Speed DML

After a brief intermezzo about testing (read about my thoughts here: Testing is Hard and we often use the wrong Incentives) - it is time to continue our journey together to where we will A...