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10 posts tagged “REST catalog”.

  1. 33 min read

    Governance-as-Code for the Lakehouse: Managing REST Catalog RBAC and Masking in Git

    A security audit asks a simple question: who can read the customers.pii table, and when was that last changed? The data platform team opens four…

  2. 31 min read

    Multi-Cloud REST Catalog Topologies: Running Apache Polaris Across AWS, Azure, and GCP

    A global company has analytics data in three places. Its retail arm runs on AWS in Virginia and Frankfurt. An acquisition brought a Google Cloud…

  3. 30 min read

    The Iceberg REST Catalog Compatibility Test: One Suite of Operations Every Platform Should Pass

    "Supports the Iceberg REST catalog" is the most load-bearing claim in the modern data platform market, and it has no test. Every catalog service,…

  4. 31 min read

    Iceberg REST Remote Scan Planning Changes More Than Query Performance

    Most of the coverage of Apache Iceberg 1.11 treats remote scan planning as a performance feature. The catalog plans the scan instead of the engine,…

  5. 30 min read

    The Catalog Can Now Plan Your Iceberg Query: Inside REST Scan Planning

    For as long as Apache Iceberg has existed, one division of labor held constant: catalogs answered "where is the table," and engines figured out…

  6. 30 min read

    Can Seven Different Iceberg REST Catalogs Really Run the Same DuckDB Code?

    A question has been making the rounds in lakehouse circles this year, usually phrased with some disbelief: someone points DuckDB, the in-process…

  7. 30 min read

    The Decoupled Data Lakehouse: Multi-Engine Freedom with Open REST Catalogs

    Every few years a data team discovers, mid-contract-renewal, exactly how much of their platform they do not control. The data sits in the vendor's…

  8. 20 min read

    How the Iceberg REST Catalog Turned Into the Lakehouse Control Plane

    A dbt run updates a fact table and two dimension tables. The fact table commit succeeds. The second dimension commit fails on a conflict. For the…

  9. 16 min read

    REST Catalog Credential Vending for Iceberg

    Handing a query engine a long-lived cloud storage key so it can read an Iceberg table is one of the most common and most dangerous patterns in…

  10. 14 min read

    REST Catalog Credential Vending for Lakehouse Security

    Credential vending lets the catalog issue short-lived storage access instead of spreading permanent cloud keys across every engine. That is the…

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