Partitioning What is partitioning? Partitioning is a way to make queries faster by grouping similar rows together when writing. For example, queries for log entries from a logs ...
Flink Connector Apache Flink supports creating Iceberg table directly without creating the explicit Flink catalog in Flink SQL. That means we can just create an iceberg table by s...
Querying from Apache Spark To read an Apache XTable™ (Incubating) synced target table (regardless of the table format) in Apache Spark locally or on services like Amazon EMR, Goog...
Evolution Iceberg supports in-place table evolution . You can evolve a table schema just like SQL — even in nested structures — or change partition layout when data volume chang...
Spark Queries To use Iceberg in Spark, first configure Spark catalogs . Iceberg uses Apache Spark’s DataSourceV2 API for data source and catalog implementations. Querying with S...
Branching and Tagging Overview Iceberg table metadata maintains a snapshot log, which represents the changes applied to a table. Snapshots are fundamental in Iceberg as they are ...