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24 posts tagged “data-lake”.

  1. 7 min read

    Migrating to Apache Iceberg: Strategies for Every Source System

    This is Part 15, the final article of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 14 covered hands-on Dremio Cloud. This article covers the three…

  2. 7 min read

    Hands-On with Apache Iceberg Using Dremio Cloud

    This is Part 14 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 13 covered streaming approaches. This article is a practical walkthrough of working…

  3. 7 min read

    Approaches to Streaming Data into Apache Iceberg Tables

    This is Part 13 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 12 covered Python and MPP engines. This article covers the three primary approaches to…

  4. 7 min read

    Using Apache Iceberg with Python and MPP Query Engines

    This is Part 12 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 11 covered metadata tables. This article covers the two main ways to access Iceberg…

  5. 7 min read

    Apache Iceberg Metadata Tables: Querying the Internals

    This is Part 11 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 10 covered maintenance operations. This article covers the metadata tables that let you…

  6. 7 min read

    Maintaining Apache Iceberg Tables: Compaction, Expiry, and Cleanup

    This is Part 10 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 9 covered how tables degrade. This article covers the four maintenance operations that…

  7. 7 min read

    How Data Lake Table Storage Degrades Over Time

    This is Part 9 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 8 covered embedded catalogs. This article explains the five ways Iceberg table storage…

  8. 7 min read

    When Catalogs Are Embedded in Storage

    This is Part 8 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 7 covered the traditional catalog landscape. This article examines a newer approach:…

  9. 7 min read

    What Are Lakehouse Catalogs? The Role of Catalogs in Apache Iceberg

    This is Part 7 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 6 covered the write process and explained how the catalog enables atomic commits. This…

  10. 8 min read

    Writing to an Apache Iceberg Table: How Commits and ACID Actually Work

    This is Part 6 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 5 covered hidden partitioning. This article walks through the exact steps an engine…

  11. 8 min read

    Hidden Partitioning: How Iceberg Eliminates Accidental Full Table Scans

    This is Part 5 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 4 covered partition evolution. This article covers hidden partitioning, the feature that…

  12. 8 min read

    Partition Evolution: Change Your Partitioning Without Rewriting Data

    This is Part 4 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 3 covered metadata-driven performance. This article explains how Iceberg handles the…

  13. 8 min read

    Performance and Apache Iceberg's Metadata

    This is Part 3 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 2 covered the metadata structures of all five table formats. This article focuses on…

  14. 8 min read

    The Metadata Structure of Modern Table Formats

    This is Part 2 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 1 covered why table formats exist. This article breaks down exactly how each format…

  15. 9 min read

    What Are Table Formats and Why Were They Needed?

    This is Part 1 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. This article covers the fundamental question: what problem do table formats solve, and why…

  16. 19 min read

    Introduction to ANSI SQL - Understanding the Syntax and Concepts

    Learning the Standard SQL Syntax

  17. 11 min read

    Introduction to Data Vault Modeling

    Understanding the Data Vault Style of Data Warehouse Modeling

  18. 7 min read

    Table Format FUD - Thinking Through the Table Format Conversion (Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, Delta Lake)

    Understanding how to choose a table format

  19. 8 min read

    Embracing the Future of Data Management - Why Choose Lakehouse, Iceberg, and Dremio?

    The Future of Data Platforms

  20. 4 min read

    Open Lakehouse Engineering/Apache Iceberg Lakehouse Engineering - A Directory of Resources

    Resources for learning how to Engineer an Open Data Lakehouse

  21. 5 min read

    Nessie - An Alternative to Hive & JDBC for Self-Managed Apache Iceberg Catalogs

    Nessie is the only open-source catalog implementation specifically for Apache Iceberg.

  22. 6 min read

    Apache Iceberg, Git-Like Catalog Versioning and Data Lakehouse Management - Pillars of a Robust Data Lakehouse Platform

    This is where the combined power of Dremio’s Lakehouse Management features and Project Nessie's catalog-level versioning comes into play.

  23. 6 min read

    5 Reasons Your Data Lakehouse should Embrace Dremio Cloud

    How your data lakehouse can expand what's possible with Dremio Cloud.

  24. 5 min read

    Brief Hands on Intro to Apache Iceberg

    Engineer a Data Lakehouse with Apache Iceberg

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