Tag: Apache Iceberg
Unleashing Near Real-Time Insights with Starburst’s Icehouse Architecture
The data industry loves coming up with new solutions to old problems. Starting with the database, followed by the data warehouse, and then the data lake. Now, most of what we talk about is the data lakehouse. However, we Read more…
Starburst Debuts Icehouse, Its Managed Apache Iceberg Service
Today at its Data Universe event, Starburst launched Icehouse, a new managed lakehouse offering built upon the table format Apache Iceberg. Starburst says the combination of the Trino query engine and Iceberg tables will Read more…
Confluent Adds Flink, Iceberg to Hosted Kafka Service
Confluent today made a pair of big announcements at its Kafka Summit London event, including the general availability of Apache Flink and the addition of Apache Iceberg support in its Kafka-based cloud offering. The new Read more…
Putting Your Data On the Table
One of the big breakthroughs in data engineering over the past seven to eight years is the emergence of table formats. Typically layered atop column-oriented Parquet files, table formats like Apache Iceberg, Delta, and A Read more…
Tabular Plows Ahead with Iceberg Data Service, $26M Round
Apache Iceberg appears to have the inside track to become the defacto standard for big data table formats at this point. And with today’s $26 million round, the company behind the open source project, Tabular, is bette Read more…
Databricks Puts Unified Data Format on the Table with Delta Lake 3.0
Databricks today rolled out a new open table format in Delta Lake 3.0 that it says will eliminate the possibility of picking the wrong one. Dubbed Universal Format, or UniForm, the new table format can read and write dat Read more…
Cloudera Sees Iceberg Everywhere
Cloudera gave its hybrid cloud customers a big boost today when it announced on-prem support for the Apache Iceberg table format. The move gives customers the capability to access and process on-prem data with any Iceber Read more…
IBM to Showcase Open Analytics Push at PrestoCon Day
The PrestoDB community will come together this Wednesday for PrestoCon Day, the third annual virtual event showcasing the popular open source SQL engine. Representatives from Uber, Adobe, Alibaba, and TikTok will share s Read more…
The Semantic Layer Architecture: Where Business Intelligence is Truly Heading
The rise of cloud computing, data mesh, and especially data lakehouses all reflect the massive efforts to adopt architectures that will keep pace with the exponential of data constantly growing. But the industry is st Read more…
Open Table Formats Square Off in Lakehouse Data Smackdown
If you’re constructing a data lakehouse today, you’ll need a table format to build on. But which open table format should you choose: Apache Iceberg, Databricks Delta Table, or Apache Hudi? A good place to start is i Read more…
Onehouse Announces $25M Series A, New Feature for Its Managed Lakehouse Platform
Managed data lakehouse firm Onehouse has announced a $25 million Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to $33 million. Additionally, the company announced a new feature of its platform called Onetable. On Read more…
Are Databases Becoming Just Query Engines for Big Object Stores?
Object storage is winning the battle for big data storage in such a convincing fashion that database makers are beginning to cede data storage to object storage vendors and concentrating instead on optimizing their SQL q Read more…
Dremio Supports Iceberg in Lakehouse Update
Dremio has announced the general availability of its support for DML operations (insert, update, and delete) on Apache Iceberg tables and for time travel for in-place querying of historical data. Apache Iceberg is an Read more…
Cloudera Picks Iceberg, Touts 10x Boost in Impala
Cloudera is now supporting the open source Apache Iceberg table format in its cloud data platform, or lakehouse, the vendor announced yesterday. The move will help to ensure transactional integrity in the big data enviro Read more…
Why the Open Sourcing of Databricks Delta Lake Table Format Is a Big Deal
Databricks introduced Delta back in 2019 as a way to gain transactional integrity with the Parquet data table format for Spark cloud workloads. Over time, Delta evolved to become its own table format and also to become m Read more…
Databricks Opens Up Its Delta Lakehouse at Data + AI Summit
Databricks, which had faced criticism of running a closed lakehouse, is open sourcing most of the technology behind Delta Lake, including its APIs, with the launch of Delta Lake 2.0. That was one of a number of announcem Read more…
Meet 2022 Datanami Person to Watch Ryan Blue
As the co-creator of Apache Iceberg, Ryan Blue played a central role in establishing the table data format as a new standard in the open data ecosystem. As the CEO of Tabular, Blue is also buliding a commerical entity ar Read more…
Lakehouse Update a Warehouse Killer, Dremio Says
Dremio co-founder and Chief Product Officer Tomer Shiran says the data lakehouse architecture updates it announced today at the start of its Subsurface Winter Live conference--including a 60% faster query engine, a new d Read more…