Apache Iceberg
10 statements across 6 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement May 24, 2021 by Ali Ghodsi · said 60 times in 8 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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brought up most by Justin Borgman (21), Matt Turck (20), Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) (7), Sridhar Ramaswamy (4), Tomasz Tunguz (3), Evan Kaplan (3), Jordan Tigani (2)
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2025 52 mentions in 4 episodes 13 per episode
- Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
- Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race
- Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy
- Rewriting Success: What InfluxDB 3.0 Teaches About Scaling—and Scrapping—Your Core Tech
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Apache Iceberg, oldest first
May 24, 2021
Ghodsi: Four major technical breakthroughs enabled the Lakehouse around 2016-2017
“Yeah, actually, the four technological breakthroughs that kind of happened at the same time, 2016, 17, at the same time, the one we contributed was Delta Lake, there was Hootie, there was Hive acid, and there was icebergs.”
Mar 23, 2023 bullish
Turck: Cost pressures accelerate architectures using S3, Iceberg, and DuckDB
“And then there's the acceleration of like alternative architectures, you know, storage. Why don't you just dump everything in S three, which is very cheap. And then, you know, you could use iceberg on top to add some structure to it. You can, we talked about D…”
Jan 23, 2025 positive
Jan 30, 2025 bearish
Borgman: Tabular acquisition gives Databricks marketing win, not open-source control
“I think probably the biggest thing that they get out of the acquisition is the ability to tell the market, That they can do iceberg two and not look like they had made a mistake with Dell with Delta. You know, that, that they can, they get sort of a marketing …”
Jan 30, 2025 bullish
Jan 30, 2025 positive
Borgman: Databricks will not control or kill Apache Iceberg
“Iceberg has, you know, is, is bigger than Databricks, honestly. And it will continue to be, I think, the ubiquitous format. You know, so if they had hopes of, like, killing it, I don't think that worked. If they had hopes of controlling it, I don't really thin…”
Apr 10, 2025 bullish
Apr 10, 2025 neutral
Apr 10, 2025 negative
Ramaswamy: Open formats like Apache Iceberg lack governance and access controls
“This is also where Iceberg or just a data lake strategy or a lake house strategy is not an immediate answer because formats like Iceberg do not understand governance rules, do not understand role-level access control, they don't understand users, they don't un…”