YES, I’m an Apache Iceberg fan and in general I do believe it is the all-around best answer when looking at the 3 major “modern table formats”; Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, and Apache Hudi. This does NOT mean I think those others are themselves “bad” and simply “wrong”. It is my strong person opinion that I’ve developed over the last 2 years.
With that, this post is highlighting two recent work activities I’ve done around the decision to, or maybe NOT to, move from Apache Hive to Iceberg. I hope you find them informative and I am always glad to have a thoughtful discussion on the topic and my thinking.
Webinar: Hive to Iceberg – To Migrate, or Not to Migrate
Please check out the video recording as well as take a look at its artifacts (preso & SQL scripts) at https://github.com/lestermartin/events/tree/main/2024-05-08_Hive2Iceberg. I sneak in some thoughts about
Blog Post: Top 5 reasons to not adopt Apache Iceberg
The blog post‘s catchy subtitle is, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Again, it’s really clickbait as the underlying theme is to actually adopt Iceberg — if not now, then at least begin planning for it.
Below is a zip file of the Starburst blog post.
Lester Martin (l11n) 