Apr 8 · 15 min read · Why Apache Iceberg Won Three open table formats competed for the lakehouse standard over the past several years: Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake (Databricks), and Apache Hudi (Uber). By 2026, Iceberg emerged as the format that every major data platform su...
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Apr 4 · 7 min read · Originally published on graycloudarch.com. The data platform team had a deadline and a storage decision to make. They'd committed to Apache Iceberg as the table format — open standard, time travel, schema evolution, the usual reasons. What they hadn...
Join discussionApr 3 · 7 min read · Lambda Architecture maintains two separate pipelines — a batch layer for accuracy and a stream layer for speed — which doubles operational complexity and often produces inconsistent results between layers. RisingWave with Apache Iceberg replaces both...
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Apr 3 · 7 min read · In RisingWave v2.8+, you can query Apache Iceberg tables directly using streaming SQL by registering them as sources. This enables lakehouse-style queries — joining Iceberg tables with live Kafka streams, reading historical snapshots, and building ma...
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Apr 3 · 7 min read · RisingWave enables real-time analytics on Apache Iceberg tables by continuously ingesting data from Kafka and databases into Iceberg via streaming sinks, and — in v2.8+ — directly querying Iceberg tables as sources. This means your dashboards and app...
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Apr 3 · 7 min read · To stream CDC data to Apache Iceberg with RisingWave: connect RisingWave's built-in Postgres CDC or MySQL CDC connector to your source database, create a materialized view to shape the data, and define an Iceberg sink with type = 'upsert'. RisingWave...
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Apr 3 · 7 min read · A medallion architecture with RisingWave and Iceberg uses three tiers: Bronze (raw data landed in Iceberg via RisingWave sinks), Silver (cleaned and joined data in Iceberg, computed by RisingWave materialized views), and Gold (business-ready aggregat...
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Apr 3 · 7 min read · Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, and Apache Hudi are all open table formats that bring ACID transactions and reliable analytics to data lakes. Iceberg offers the broadest multi-engine support and most flexible metadata design. Delta Lake has the deepest S...
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Apr 3 · 6 min read · A real-time data lakehouse with RisingWave and Apache Iceberg on S3 gives you sub-minute data freshness, full SQL analytics, and object storage costs — without a proprietary data warehouse. RisingWave streams data continuously into Iceberg tables on ...
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Apr 3 · 6 min read · To sink Kafka streams to Apache Iceberg with RisingWave: create a Kafka source, build a materialized view to transform or aggregate the data, then create an Iceberg sink pointing to your catalog and table. RisingWave handles continuous writes automat...
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