What problem does it solve?
This Skill provides comprehensive expertise on the Apache Iceberg table format, enabling users to effectively manage, query, and optimize data lakes.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Deep Dive into Iceberg: Understand architecture, metadata layers, catalogs, and format versions.
- Operational Guidance: Learn DDL, DML, MERGE, time travel, branching, and maintenance procedures.
- Performance Tuning: Optimize partitioning, sort orders, file sizing, and compaction strategies.
- Engine Integration: Configure and use Iceberg with Spark, Trino, Flink, Athena, and more.
- Governance & Security: Implement WAP, encryption, and access control patterns.
- Use Case: When designing a new lakehouse architecture, use this Skill to choose the right catalog implementation (REST, Glue, Nessie) and configure optimal partitioning and sort orders for your expected query patterns.
Quick Start
Explain the Apache Iceberg architecture, including its three-layer structure and the role of each metadata file.