What Iceberg Table Maintenance Actually Costs
September 10, 2026A cost model for compaction, snapshot expiry, orphan cleanup, and manifest rewriting: what each operation spends, on which meter, and how to set a schedule.
A cost model for compaction, snapshot expiry, orphan cleanup, and manifest rewriting: what each operation spends, on which meter, and how to set a schedule.
Four meters, their real proportions, and how to attribute compute to a query, a table, and a team so a platform can answer what a dashboard costs to run.
A background agent can move cold Iceberg partitions to cheaper tiers without breaking live queries. Heatmaps, path-safe moves, and restore paths.