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Variant
3 posts tagged “Variant”.
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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.…
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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…
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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…