The Vertex Journal· 2 min read
Managed Iceberg, the S3 Tables verdict so far
AWS made the table format a bucket feature. What the managed layer actually buys, what it costs against running your own, and who should wait.
#iceberg#s3#platforms
Platforms
8 articles
· 1 min read
DuckDB, two years into 1.x: the re-verdict
We called the single-node renaissance early. Time to check the review against what actually happened, which is the part of criticism most outlets skip.
#duckdb#databases#practice
· 3 min read
Iceberg v3 outran the engines that read it
Snowflake, Databricks and Dremio shipped Iceberg v3 GA this spring. Trino is partial, Athena and BigQuery still read v2. The interop math, reviewed.
#iceberg#table-formats#lakehouse
· 3 min read
Open Semantic Interchange became Apache Ossie: fifty logos, one YAML file, verdict pending
The semantic-layer interchange standard has a real spec, a real Apache incubator and a real gap between signing and shipping. We read the YAML so you can read the roadmaps.
#semantic-layer#standards#governance
· 4 min read
The table format standoff is over and nobody surrendered
Iceberg, Delta and the rest converged on features and moved the war to catalogs. Where the actual lock-in lives in 2026, and what to standardize on.
#iceberg#delta#lakehouse
· 2 min read
Postgres is enough until it very suddenly isn't
pg_duckdb hit 1.0 and made the boring answer better. When your warehouse should be your Postgres, and the three signals that the honeymoon is ending.
#postgres#duckdb#warehouse
· 4 min read
The single-node renaissance is a correction, not a fad
DuckDB made one machine respectable again. A review of what the distributed decade got wrong about the size of actual data.
#duckdb#architecture#warehouse
· 2 min read
Lakehouse or warehouse is a staffing question
The formats converged, the engines cross-read each other, and the real decision is about the team you have, not the architecture you admire.
#lakehouse#warehouse#architecture