Apache Iceberg promises to change the economics of cloud-based data analytics

January 3, 2023


Adopted by Snowflake, Google and Cloudera, we look at why the Netflix-developed table format is important

FEATURE By 2015, Netflix had completed its move from an on-premises data warehouse and analytics stack to one based around AWS S3 object storage. But the environment soon began to hit some snags.

"Let me tell you a little bit about Hive tables and our love/hate relationship with them," said Ted Gooch, former database architect at the streaming service.

While there were some good things about Hive, there were also some performance-based issues and "some very surprising behaviors."

"Because it's not a heterogeneous format or a format that's well defined, different engines supported things in different ways," Gooch – now a software engineer at Stripe and an Iceberg committer – said in an online video posted by data lake company Dremio.

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