The Vertex Journal· 2 min read
The table-format war became a catalog war
Iceberg's REST catalog spec ended the format fight by making it moot. The contest moved to the control plane, where Apache Polaris and Unity Catalog now sit.
#catalogs#iceberg#lakehouse
Tagged: iceberg
6 articles
· 1 min read
The table format war ended without a press release
We told you to wait out the table format war. The armistice arrived without a press release. A short update to an old verdict.
#iceberg#delta#formats
· 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
· 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
· 1 min read
DuckDB can write to an Iceberg catalog now, in an alpha
dbt Core's v2 alpha gives DuckDB read-write Horizon and Unity catalogs over Iceberg REST. Useful, checkable, and not yet something to put on a migration plan.
#duckdb#dbt#iceberg
· 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