Variant

1. August 24, 202631 min read

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

   Iceberg Variant stores JSON as navigable binary with shredding for columnar filters. Why flattening wide tables is no longer the only performance path.

2. August 24, 202630 min read

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

   Variant shredding turns messy JSON into Parquet columns with statistics. How the layout works, how readers reassemble values, and why some queries prune.

3. August 4, 202621 min read

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

   How Iceberg V3's Variant type and Parquet shredding turn JSON columns into prunable typed columns, with real benchmark tradeoffs and a migration path.

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