Databricks' recent acquisition of Tabular, the company behind the open-source Apache Iceberg table format, for a staggering $1 billion has sent ripples through the Iceberg community. This move comes as a surprise considering Databricks previously promoted its own table format, Delta, and Tabular was founded by the original authors of Iceberg.
In June, Databricks shelled out $1 billion for Tabular, a startup backer of the open source Apache Iceberg table format, signalling just how important the rather niche topic had become. It was a move which shocked the Iceberg community.
A doctor of bio-informatics, Spitzer started working on Iceberg not long after joining Apple, from DataStax, where he had helped develop the column-oriented Cassandra database company's Apache Spark connector. He had expected to continue his work with Spark, But Iceberg was not the only game in town. Databricks had developed its own table format, Delta Lake, with a similar aim to Iceberg. There is also Apache Hudi, which its backers say offers more than just a table format; ingest tools, a very different concurrency model, indexes are also part of the package.
On the webinar, Blue admitted the schism in table formats had created a problem for developers."You have to choose which one to use. Engines and other frameworks have chosen to support one or not the other, and now we have just a bigger problem of inconsistencies, and that is preventing people from choosing a modern format at all, which is absolutely the worst thing ."
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