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How Apache Iceberg Is Changing the Face of Data Lakes

Snowflake

Iceberg tables become interoperable while maintaining ACID compliance by adding a layer of metadata to the data files in a users object storage. An external catalog tracks the latest table metadata and helps ensure consistency across multiple readers and writers. Put simply: Iceberg is metadata.

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Why Open Table Format Architecture is Essential for Modern Data Systems

phData: Data Engineering

Then, we add another column called HASHKEY , add more data, and locate the S3 file containing metadata for the iceberg table. Hence, the metadata files record schema and partition changes, enabling systems to process data with the correct schema and partition structure for each relevant historical dataset.

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Build an Open Data Lakehouse with Iceberg Tables, Now in Public Preview

Snowflake

With this public preview, those external catalog options are either “GLUE”, where Snowflake can retrieve table metadata snapshots from AWS Glue Data Catalog, or “OBJECT_STORE”, where Snowflake retrieves metadata snapshots directly from the specified cloud storage location. Now, Snowflake can make changes to the table.

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Cost Conscious Data Warehousing with Cloudera Data Platform

Cloudera

With the separation of compute and storage, CDW engines leverage newer techniques such as compute-only scaling and efficient caching of shared data. These techniques range from distributing concurrent query for overall throughput to metadata caching, data caching, and results caching. 2,300 / month for the cloud hardware costs.

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Carbon Hack 24: Leveraging the Impact Framework to Estimate the Carbon Cost of Cloud Storage by Matt Griffin

Scott Logic

We started to consider breaking the components down into different plugins, which could be used for more than just cloud storage. Adding further plugins So first we took the cloud specific aspects and put them into a cloud-storage-metadata plugin, which would retrieve the replication factor based on the vendor and service being used.

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

Netflix Tech

Table 1: Movie and File Size Examples Initial Architecture A simplified view of our initial cloud video processing pipeline is illustrated in the following diagram. The inspection stage examines the input media for compliance with Netflix’s delivery specifications and generates rich metadata.

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Cloudera Data Warehouse outperforms Azure HDInsight in TPC-DS benchmark

Cloudera

A TPC-DS 10TB dataset was generated in ACID ORC format and stored on the ADLS Gen 2 cloud storage. CDP ensures end to end security, governance and metadata management consistently across all the services through its versatile Shared Data Experience (SDX) module. Cloudera Data Warehouse vs HDInsight.