How Iceberg V3 Deletion Vectors Fixed Merge-on-Read for Streaming Tables
August 04, 2026How Iceberg V3 deletion vectors replaced accumulating positional delete files and made merge-on-read viable for streaming and CDC tables.
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Reading the Apache Iceberg V4 Proposals Before They Land
August 04, 2026A field guide to the Apache Iceberg V4 proposals: adaptive metadata trees, single-file commits, typed statistics, column families, and what is safe to build on today.
Why Iceberg V4 Wants to Retire Equality Deletes, and What Streaming Teams Should Do About It
July 28, 2026Equality deletes made streaming upserts into Iceberg practical at the cost of read performance. V4 proposes retiring them in favor of deletion vectors with an async conversion path.
Apache Fluss and Kafka Solve Different Problems in an Iceberg Pipeline
July 28, 2026Fluss puts a columnar, indexed hot tier between Kafka and Iceberg. Here's what it changes structurally, what Kafka still does better, and how to benchmark the comparison yourself.
Serving Sub-Second Queries Over an Iceberg Lakehouse With a Hot Tier
July 28, 2026A lakehouse cannot serve sub-second queries over seconds-old data. A hot tier in front solves it, with consequences for consistency, governance, and operational surface.
Optimizing Compaction for Streaming Workloads in Apache Iceberg
July 29, 2025Learn how to design fast, incremental compaction strategies in Apache Iceberg to support high-throughput streaming pipelines without disrupting freshness or performance.