The Vortex proposal split into criteria and candidate. What field IDs, statistics, governance, and ecosystem support a new Iceberg file format must prove.
Partitioning, sort orders, and Z-order each cluster Iceberg data differently. Compare the costs, the failure modes, and how to measure layout with data_files.
MinIO's community edition is archived. Compare RustFS, SeaweedFS, Ceph, and Garage against what Iceberg actually needs, then test and migrate.
What Apache Polaris 1.9.0 adds for multi-cloud lakehouses: Cloudflare R2 credential vending, a DynamoDB persistence backend, and the Iceberg 1.12 client.
