Monday Morning Data Chat #137 - Why Apache Iceberg Won the Table Format War, Data Mesh, and More w/ Brian Olsen
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Jul 31, 2023 AI Snips
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Table Format "War"
- No single table format implementation has definitively "won."
- Iceberg and Delta Lake are in a close "arms race" of features.
Hive's SQL
- Hive's SQL implementation is considered "barbaric" due to custom syntax and implementation details leaking into SQL.
- This includes procedures like syncing with the metastore to handle inconsistencies between metadata and storage.
Iceberg's Strength
- Apache Iceberg's open specification, driven by community dialogue, is its strength.
- Growing adoption by major vendors like Snowflake and Databricks signals its success as a data interchange format.