Hacker News with Generative AI: Apache Iceberg

Benefits of Apache Iceberg for geospatial data analysis (wherobots.com)
Apache Iceberg v3 supports the geometry type which allows the geospatial community to take advantage of amazing Iceberg features like reliable transactions, DML operations (deletes & upserts), time travel, versioned data, schema enforcement, schema evolution, and much more.
Geospatial Data, Apache Iceberg, Data Analysis
16 points by MrPowers 14 days ago | 1 comments
Cloudflare R2 Data Catalog: Managed Apache Iceberg tables with zero egress fees (cloudflare.com)
Apache Iceberg is quickly becoming the standard table format for querying large analytic datasets in object storage. We’re seeing this trend firsthand as more and more developers and data teams adopt Iceberg on Cloudflare R2. But until now, using Iceberg with R2 meant managing additional infrastructure or relying on external data catalogs.
Cloud Storage, Data Analytics, Apache Iceberg, Cloudflare
47 points by kalendos 16 days ago | 8 comments
Conflict-Free Distributed Architecture for Append-Only Writes to Apache Iceberg (e6data.com)
Apache Iceberg is a cornerstone table format in modern data lakehouse systems. It is renowned for its ability to deliver transactional consistency, schema evolution, and snapshot isolation through a metadata-driven architecture.
Distributed Systems, Big Data, Data Lakehouse, Apache Iceberg
10 points by hackintoshrao 37 days ago | 2 comments
Apache iceberg the Hadoop of the modern-data-stack? (det.life)
In the early 2010s, Apache Hadoop dominated the big data conversation. Organizations raced to adopt it, seeing it as the cornerstone for scalable, distributed storage and processing. Today, Apache Iceberg is emerging as a cornerstone for data lakes and lakehouses in the modern data stack.
Apache Iceberg, Data Warehousing, Big Data, Apache Hadoop
115 points by samrohn 51 days ago | 65 comments
Apache Iceberg now supports geospatial data types natively (wherobots.com)
Geospatial solutions were thought of as “special”, because what modernized the data ecosystem of today, left geospatial data mostly behind. This changes today. Thanks to the efforts of the Apache Iceberg and Parquet communities, we are excited to share that both Iceberg and Parquet now support geometry and geography (collectively the GEO) data types.
Geospatial Data, Apache Iceberg, Open Source, Data Management, Parquet
104 points by Mosarwat 73 days ago | 21 comments
S3 Tables (meltware.com)
AWS announced S3 Tables yesterday, which brings native support for Apache Iceberg to S3. It’s hard to overstate how exciting this is for the data analytics ecosystem.
AWS, Data Analytics, Apache Iceberg, Cloud Storage
43 points by pongogogo 143 days ago | 2 comments