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Use AWS Glue ETL to perform merge, partition evolution, and schema evolution on Apache Iceberg

AWS Big Data

As enterprises collect increasing amounts of data from various sources, the structure and organization of that data often need to change over time to meet evolving analytical needs. For example, an ecommerce company may add new customer demographic attributes or order status flags to enrich analytics.

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Use Apache Iceberg in your data lake with Amazon S3, AWS Glue, and Snowflake

AWS Big Data

Customers are using AWS and Snowflake to develop purpose-built data architectures that provide the performance required for modern analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) use cases. AWS provides integrations for various AWS services with Iceberg tables as well, including AWS Glue Data Catalog for tracking table metadata.

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Use Amazon Athena with Spark SQL for your open-source transactional table formats

AWS Big Data

AWS-powered data lakes, supported by the unmatched availability of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), can handle the scale, agility, and flexibility required to combine different data and analytics approaches. It will never remove files that are still required by a non-expired snapshot.

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Migrate an existing data lake to a transactional data lake using Apache Iceberg

AWS Big Data

You can store your data as-is, without having to first structure the data and then run different types of analytics for better business insights. Analytics use cases on data lakes are always evolving. In this method, the metadata are recreated in an isolated environment and colocated with the existing data files.

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Use Apache Iceberg in a data lake to support incremental data processing

AWS Big Data

Apache Iceberg is an open table format for very large analytic datasets, which captures metadata information on the state of datasets as they evolve and change over time. Apache Iceberg integration is supported by AWS analytics services including Amazon EMR , Amazon Athena , and AWS Glue. Starting with Amazon EMR version 6.5.0,

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Apache Iceberg optimization: Solving the small files problem in Amazon EMR

AWS Big Data

Iceberg tables store metadata in manifest files. As the number of data files increase, the amount of metadata stored in these manifest files also increases, leading to longer query planning time. The query runtime also increases because it’s proportional to the number of data or metadata file read operations.

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Streaming Ingestion for Apache Iceberg With Cloudera Stream Processing

Cloudera

Recently, we announced enhanced multi-function analytics support in Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) with Apache Iceberg. Iceberg is a high-performance open table format for huge analytic data sets. The Default Database is an optional field so we can leave it empty for now.

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