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The Next Era of the Open Lakehouse: Apache Iceberg™ v3 in Public Preview on Databricks
Databricks launched public preview support for Iceberg v3, which introduces Row Lineage for tracking data changes, Deletion Vectors for 10x faster updates and deletes, and a VARIANT type for querying semi-structured data without schema enforcement. The update eliminates the performance tradeoff between Delta Lake and Iceberg through Unity Catalog's cross-engine governance, allowing teams to write data once and read it across multiple platforms like Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift without replication.
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