Topic
Table Maintenance
7 posts tagged “Table Maintenance”.
-
Keeping Audit Snapshots Alive While Iceberg Snapshot Expiration Runs Every Night
To keep a specific Apache Iceberg snapshot through routine expiration, point a tag at it. Snapshot expiration never removes a snapshot that a live…
-
What Iceberg Table Maintenance Actually Costs
Someone eventually asks the question, usually in a quarterly planning meeting: why are we running a Spark cluster every night against tables nobody…
-
Table Maintenance Stopped Being a Product
A team I worked with had a dashboard that loaded in three seconds in January and forty seconds in June. Data volume grew 20 percent over that period.…
-
Avoiding Metadata Bloat with Snapshot Expiration and Rewriting Manifests
Learn how to prevent and clean up metadata bloat in Apache Iceberg by expiring snapshots and rewriting manifests for better performance and manageability.
-
Optimizing Compaction for Streaming Workloads in Apache Iceberg
Learn how to design fast, incremental compaction strategies in Apache Iceberg to support high-throughput streaming pipelines without disrupting freshness or performance.
-
The Basics of Compaction – Bin Packing Your Data for Efficiency
Learn how standard compaction works in Apache Iceberg and why bin packing your data files is essential for maintaining query performance and cost efficiency.
-
The Cost of Neglect – How Apache Iceberg Tables Degrade Without Optimization
Learn how Apache Iceberg tables can degrade over time without optimization and what issues this causes for performance, cost, and governance.