The Apache Iceberg revolution: A catalyst for data transformation?

Built at Netflix, used at Apple, LinkedIn, Meta and Tencent, supported by data processing engines like Spark and Flink and adopted by an increasingly long list of database and data platform vendors from Databricks to Microsoft to Snowflake; the open source Apache Iceberg is a common table format designed for extremely large analytic data sets that lets you mix and match.

“Iceberg is revolutionary in the data world, the way git was in the development world, Craig Kerstiens, chief product officer at Crunchy Data, told us. “It is a step function change that we haven't seen in the data world in a while.”