What I make of it
In store as apache-iceberg. The catalog/metadata layer is the model; the file layout is the format.
Iceberg REST Catalog and table metadata
Metadata Model
Data Engineering
Apache Iceberg™ Apache Iceberg™ Initializing search Home Quickstart Docs Releases Project Community Blog Specification /* Hide main content for now */ .md-content { display: none; } /* Hide table of contents */ @media screen and (min-width: 60em) { .md-sidebar--secondary { display: none; } } /* Hide navigation */ @media screen and (min-width: 76.25em) { .md-sidebar--primary { display: none; } } Apache Iceberg™ The open table format for analytic datasets. community github youtube slack What is Apache Iceberg™? Iceberg is a high-performance format for huge analytic tables.
Also in the API standards catalog
This standard shows up on both sides of the house — as a data model here, and as a standard applied in API operations. Same standard, two lenses.
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