Rare: a table-formats article that doesn't tell you to rip-and-replace everything for Iceberg. If you work near a lakehouse, it's worth a read. Key points, regardless of what you run: 💸 The format itself costs $0. Iceberg, Delta, and Hudi are Apache-2.0. You pay for compute, storage, and the platform—so the real question is engine economics for your workload.

@byte_array Um yeah but what about @apachextable ? Wasn’t that supposed to be the grand unifying layer for all this?

It still is. Companies use it outside of onehouse, azure also. Uniform is what databricks still uses to support Iceberg on their platform. But market narrative has been: everything is converging to Iceberg, as common denominator. This article is talking about the core open-source lakehouse storage tech, which is evolving, faster than common denominator. Eg hudi has indexes, rest don’t at this point.