Tag:catalogs
All the articles with the tag "catalogs".
- 31 MIN READ•Sep 10, 2026
Running Apache Polaris in Production
Apache Polaris past the quickstart: persistence backends, realm bootstrap, replica token signing, upgrades, backups, and which failures take the lakehouse offline.
Apache PolarisApache Icebergcatalogs - 31 MIN READ•Sep 10, 2026
Serving Iceberg Tables From Two Regions
Three multi-region topologies that work and one that mostly does not, what an Iceberg commit costs across regions, and where the catalog has to live.
Apache Icebergmulti-regionreplication - 29 MIN READ•Sep 2, 2026
Metadata Platforms in 2026: DataHub, OpenMetadata, Atlan, and Catalog Convergence
How the technical catalog and the metadata platform are converging in 2026, and how to arrange the two layers for a lakehouse.
DataHubOpenMetadataAtlan - 31 MIN READ•Sep 2, 2026
Moving Iceberg Tables Between Catalogs Without Rewriting Data
Why moving Iceberg tables between catalogs is a pointer copy, and the protocol that makes a cutover safe for one table or thousands.
Apache IcebergCatalogsMigration - 30 MIN READ•Aug 24, 2026
Who Actually Owns an Iceberg Table? Managed, External, and the New Vocabulary of Lakehouse Control
Managed and external Iceberg tables mean different things on every platform. Five ownership dimensions and a translation method for vendor vocabulary.
Apache Icebergcatalogsgovernance - 15 MIN READ•Jul 6, 2026
Decoupled Catalogs vs. Managed Tables: Architectural Freedom in the Age of Table Format Convergence
Open table formats have changed buyer expectations. A few years ago, the question was whether an organization should put more analytical data into...
catalogstable formatsarchitecture - 24 MIN READ•May 22, 2026
Apache Iceberg Catalogs Explained: REST, Glue, Hive Metastore, Polaris, Nessie, and Snowflake
A deep dive into Apache Iceberg catalog architecture, comparing REST catalogs, AWS Glue, Project Nessie, Polaris, and Snowflake.
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