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Ryan Blue

Ryan Blue is the co-creator and PMC chair of Apache Iceberg and co-founder of Tabular. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and is a PMC member of Apache Parquet and Avro. He loves building things.

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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! This post covers some of the highlights that make this a great release.

Iceberg 0.13
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Metadata Indexing in Iceberg

This post details how Iceberg’s metadata forms an index that Iceberg uses to scale to hundreds of petabytes in a single table and to quickly find matching data, even on a single node.

Metadata Indexing
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Tabular and the Iceberg Community

To be successful, the Iceberg community needs to be collaborative, neutral, and independent. To ensure that it continues to be a healthy and successful community, we're creating an open source culture at Tabular that sets best practices for working in the community.

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Introducing Tabular

Introducing Tabular. We think data engineers, analysts, and scientists are most effective when they can focus on building reliable data products and answering questions, not fighting infrastructure. We’re creating a new data platform that automates maintenance and optimization to protect people from tedious concerns, while enabling them to work with the same data simultaneously across Spark, Trino, Flink, and other engines. The core of Tabular is the open source standard for huge analytic tables, Apache Iceberg.

Introducing Tabular