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Iceberg's Portability Problem

People Don't Talk about this as much as they should

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Matt Martin
Dec 18, 2024
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Both Apache Iceberg and Databricks Delta Lake are dominating the open table format wars for the Lakehouse. Both boast that they are “open”, to where you own the data and at any point if you want to move from one cloud provider or data storage medium to another, you can simply wave a magic wand 🪄, copy your data over from one cloud provider bucket to an…

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