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6 posts tagged “catalogs”.

  1. 31 min read

    Running Apache Polaris in Production

    Apache Polaris past the quickstart: persistence backends, realm bootstrap, replica token signing, upgrades, backups, and which failures take the lakehouse offline.

  2. 31 min read

    Serving Iceberg Tables From Two Regions

    Three multi-region topologies that work and one that mostly does not, what an Iceberg commit costs across regions, and where the catalog has to live.

  3. 29 min read

    Metadata Platforms in 2026: DataHub, OpenMetadata, Atlan, and Catalog Convergence

    How the technical catalog and the metadata platform are converging in 2026, and how to arrange the two layers for a lakehouse.

  4. 31 min read

    Moving Iceberg Tables Between Catalogs Without Rewriting Data

    Why moving Iceberg tables between catalogs is a pointer copy, and the protocol that makes a cutover safe for one table or thousands.

  5. 30 min read

    Who Actually Owns an Iceberg Table? Managed, External, and the New Vocabulary of Lakehouse Control

    Managed and external Iceberg tables mean different things on every platform. Five ownership dimensions and a translation method for vendor vocabulary.

  6. 15 min read

    Decoupled Catalogs vs. Managed Tables: Architectural Freedom in the Age of Table Format Convergence

    Open table formats have changed buyer expectations. A few years ago, the question was whether an organization should put more analytical data into...

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