If you drop ten thousand Parquet files into an S3 bucket, you have a data swamp. You do not have a database. To run SQL queries against those files...
If you ask a data analyst to calculate the average transaction amount for the month of July using a massive CSV file, the compute engine must read ...
Treating thousands of Parquet files as a unified database table requires a brain. Apache Iceberg provides the metadata structure to do this, but th...
If you build a modern data lakehouse, you inevitably stack Apache Iceberg, Apache Parquet, and Apache Arrow. These projects dictate how you store, ...