The Battle of Data Lakes: Iceberg vs Delta vs Hudi

We’ve seen the rise and fall of Apache Hive as the default choice when it comes to data lakes.

Hive lost its footing for a few big reasons.

• It was too coupled with Hadoop and Spark

• Hive, the query engine, became a painful reminder of the slow MapReduce days of data engineering

• It didn’t handle small updates very effectively

These major drawbacks from Hive …