Delta Lake and Iceberg: The Arms Race

The next step would be everybody's storing data all the way down to metadata. And if you need everything to be sitting in S3 for cheaper, or something like that, then that should be the next option. The ultimate thing I'm trying to convey here is that we all need to get at all of these different table formats under one spec. There can be multiple implementations. It's an arms race between Delta Lake and iceberg.