The Apache Iceberg Market in the Middle of 2026
July 25, 2026A survey of the Apache Iceberg market in July 2026: the state of the specification, platform support, the acquisition wave, the catalog contest, and how to evaluate real Iceberg support.
14 posts tagged with "lakehouse"
The Whole Lakehouse Fits on Your Laptop Now
July 25, 2026Consumer hardware, columnar formats, single-node engines, and the Iceberg REST catalog crossed a threshold: a large share of cluster work now runs locally against the same governed tables.
Iceberg's Next Version Depends on Decisions Being Made in Parquet
July 25, 2026The Iceberg and Parquet specifications are co-evolving. Several of the most consequential Iceberg v4 proposals are waiting on Parquet work, and practitioners should read both dev lists.
Table Maintenance Stopped Being a Product
July 25, 2026Iceberg table maintenance commoditized when every platform started shipping it. What the six operations are, what they cost, and the observability you should keep even when the work is managed.
Three Vendors Are Rebuilding the Path From Transaction to Agent
July 25, 2026Databricks, Snowflake, and SAP are closing the gap between operational databases and analytical platforms through acquisition, betting on different layers of the same five-part architecture.
Building a Lakehouse That Stays Inside the Border
July 25, 2026Residency is a storage location. Sovereignty is who can compel access, who operates the systems, and whether you can leave. A practical guide to sovereign lakehouse architecture in 2026.
Migrating Proprietary Warehouses to Open Lakehouses: The 2026 Playbook for Zero-Copy Metadata Translation
July 06, 2026Cross-posted. This article’s canonical home is iceberglakehouse.com. Migrating Proprietary Warehouses to Open Lakehouses: The 2026 Playbook…
Apache Software Foundation: History, Purpose, and Process
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What is Apache Parquet? Columns, Encoding, and Performance
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Assembling the Apache Lakehouse: The Modular Architecture
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What is Apache Polaris? Unifying the Iceberg Ecosystem
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What is Apache Iceberg? The Table Format Revolution
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What is Apache Arrow? Erasing the Serialization Tax
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Agentic Analytics on the Apache Lakehouse
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