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

AWS Big Data

Apache Iceberg manages these schema changes in a backward-compatible way through its innovative metadata table evolution architecture. With Lake Formation, you can manage fine-grained access control for your data lake data on Amazon S3 and its metadata in the Data Catalog. Iceberg maintains the table state in metadata 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 addresses customer needs by capturing rich metadata information about the dataset at the time the individual data files are created.

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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. with Spark 3.3.2,

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

AWS Big Data

This means the data files in the data lake aren’t modified during the migration and all Apache Iceberg metadata files (manifests, manifest files, and table metadata files) are generated outside the purview of the data. In this method, the metadata are recreated in an isolated environment and colocated with the existing data files.

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Introducing in-place version upgrades with Amazon MWAA

AWS Big Data

If you also needed to preserve the history of DAG runs, you had to take a backup of your metadata database and then restore that backup on the newly created environment. Amazon MWAA manages the entire upgrade process, from provisioning new Apache Airflow versions to upgrading the metadata database. or v2.0.2, and higher environment.

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From Hive Tables to Iceberg Tables: Hassle-Free

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They also provide a “ snapshot” procedure that creates an Iceberg table with a different name with the same underlying data. You could first create a snapshot table, run sanity checks on the snapshot table, and ensure that everything is in order. Hive creates Iceberg’s metadata files for the same exact table.

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

AWS Big Data

Building a starter version of anything can often be straightforward, but building something with enterprise-grade scale, security, resiliency, and performance typically requires knowledge and adherence to battle-tested best practices, and using the right tools and features in the right scenario. system implemented with Amazon Redshift.