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Page 31 of 125- 01The State of Apache Parquet in 2026: The Quiet Format Enters Its Loudest DecadeApache Parquet in 2026 — variant types, geospatial, ALP encoding, footer redesign, the versioning debate, and how the decade-old format is renovating for AI workloads.Apache ParquetJul 06, 2026
- 02The State of Apache Arrow in 2026: Ten Years In, the Invisible Standard Is EverywhereApache Arrow at 10 — ADBC, Flight SQL, nanoarrow, the AI reinterpretation, and how an in-memory standard eliminated the copy tax across the data stack.Apache ArrowJul 06, 2026
- 03The State of Apache Polaris in July 2026: From Incubating Catalog to the Governance Layer of the Open LakehouseApache Polaris as a TLP — federation, credential vending, semantic layers, lineage, and how the open catalog became the governance plane of the multi-engine lakehouse.Apache PolarisJul 06, 2026
- 04The State of Streaming to Apache Iceberg in July 2026: Every Path, Its Latency, and What to Do When Seconds Are Not Fast EnoughEvery path for streaming data into Iceberg in 2026 — Flink, Spark, Kafka Connect, broker-native, managed pipelines — with honest latency numbers and sub-second hybrid architectures.Apache IcebergJul 06, 2026
- 05Lakehouse Table Formats in 2026: Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, Paimon, and DuckLake, How They Work, Where They Stand, and Where They're GoingCross-posted. This article’s canonical home is iceberglakehouse.com. Lakehouse Table Formats in 2026: Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, Paimon, and…Apache IcebergJul 06, 2026
- 06The 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol Release Candidate: What the Stateless Spec Means for Data PlatformsWhat the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol Release Candidate means for data platforms and agentic analytics.AI & AgentsJul 06, 2026