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Tabular publishes Apache Iceberg Cookbook with 34 initial recipes
Apache Iceberg is now the de facto open format for analytic tables. That has been a surprisingly swift rise, moving…
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Iceberg and Hudi ACID Guarantees
When I talk about Apache Iceberg and open table formats, I have a strong preference to focus on just Iceberg.…
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Apache Iceberg 1.4.0 is available!
Yesterday the Apache Iceberg community released version 1.4.0, packed with improvements. In this post, I’ll highlight a few of those…
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The Case for Independent Storage
Tabular has just secured a new round of funding, led by Altimeter Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz and Zetta…
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Zen and the art of CDC Performance
I’ve moved around for work quite a bit in my career, mostly when I worked for the government and was…
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The CDC MERGE Pattern
Categories: OpinionThe MERGE pattern is the first design I discuss in this series that maintains data directly in a mirror table…
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Iceberg in Modern Data Architecture
The last two weeks have seen several major announcements about Apache Iceberg: These are radical developments. Commercial warehouse engines seldom…
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CDC Data Gremlins
Categories: OpinionThe first part of this series introduced CDC table mirroring using the change log pattern. It omitted an important part of…
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Hello, World of CDC!
Categories: OpinionThis is the first in a series about mirroring transactional database tables into a data lake. Mirroring is an important…
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What’s new in Iceberg 1.1
The Apache Iceberg community just released a new version, 1.1.0. In this post, we’ll explore some of the recent highlights:…
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The top 3 things data engineers can stop spending time on
One of the reasons we started Tabular is that data engineers are asked to do far too much unnecessary work.…
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What’s new in Iceberg 0.13
The Apache Iceberg community just released version 0.13 and there’s a lot of great new additions! In this post, I’ll…
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Tabular and the Iceberg Community
Tabular and the Iceberg community In our announcement blog post, I briefly mentioned Tabular’s relationship with the ASF Iceberg community: We…