Nice introductory post but how can you write about Iceberg, compare it to Hive and not mention Delta table at all? Looks like a paid post without being tagged as such.
Exactly. So much Iceberg advertisement without comparing with Delta. There are basically 0 practical articles comparing these formats (which are the only competitors in my opinion).
For example, I heard from many people that python sdk for Iceberg is {many bad words here}. But delta python sdk is very solid (rust, 2.5k stars etc.)
It is hard to find people who were using two technologies not at the surface. But based on the repositories statistics Delta feels much more logical choice (more commits, more frequency of contributions etc.).
Hi Zach,
Nice introductory post but how can you write about Iceberg, compare it to Hive and not mention Delta table at all? Looks like a paid post without being tagged as such.
Cheers
Michał
Exactly. So much Iceberg advertisement without comparing with Delta. There are basically 0 practical articles comparing these formats (which are the only competitors in my opinion).
For example, I heard from many people that python sdk for Iceberg is {many bad words here}. But delta python sdk is very solid (rust, 2.5k stars etc.)
It is hard to find people who were using two technologies not at the surface. But based on the repositories statistics Delta feels much more logical choice (more commits, more frequency of contributions etc.).
PyIceberg needs a lot of work for sure