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3 posts tagged “Variant”.

  1. 31 min read

    Stop Flattening Your JSON: How Iceberg Variant Changes Semi-Structured Analytics

    Somewhere in your company there is a table with a column named payload, properties, rawevent, or extra, and inside it lives JSON stored as a string.…

  2. 30 min read

    Variant Shredding Explained: How Iceberg Gets Columnar Performance From Messy JSON

    The Variant type in Apache Iceberg v3 gets described in one sentence so often that the sentence has started doing damage: "store JSON without a…

  3. 21 min read

    How Iceberg V3 Variant Shredding Changed Semi-Structured Data on S3 Tables

    Every data engineer has inherited the same table. It has four or five real columns and one column called payload, raw, body, or eventjson. That…

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