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

AWS Big Data

Iceberg tables maintain metadata to abstract large collections of files, providing data management features including time travel, rollback, data compaction, and full schema evolution, reducing management overhead. Snowflake integrates with AWS Glue Data Catalog to retrieve the snapshot location.

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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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Optimization Strategies for Iceberg Tables

Cloudera

It offers several benefits such as schema evolution, hidden partitioning, time travel, and more that improve the productivity of data engineers and data analysts. Problem with too many snapshots Everytime a write operation occurs on an Iceberg table, a new snapshot is created. See Write properties.

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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 is designed to support these features on cost-effective petabyte-scale data lakes on Amazon S3. The snapshot points to the manifest list.

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Power enterprise-grade Data Vaults with Amazon Redshift – Part 2

AWS Big Data

Data Vault overview For a brief review of the core Data Vault premise and concepts, refer to the first post in this series. For more information, refer to Amazon Redshift database encryption. Developers and analysts can choose to create materialized views after analyzing their workloads to determine which queries would benefit.

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From Hive Tables to Iceberg Tables: Hassle-Free

Cloudera

However, as there are already 25 million terabytes of data stored in the Hive table format, migrating existing tables in the Hive table format into the Iceberg table format is necessary for performance and cost. They also provide a “ snapshot” procedure that creates an Iceberg table with a different name with the same underlying data.

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Exploring real-time streaming for generative AI Applications

AWS Big Data

The result is made available to the application by querying the latest snapshot. The snapshot constantly updates through stream processing; therefore, the up-to-date data is provided in the context of a user prompt to the model. For more information, refer to Notions of Time: Event Time and Processing Time.