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

Reading Time: 21 min, Date: 2025-07-10

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

Reading Time: 17 min, Date: 2025-07-06

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...