--- title: Introduction to Apache Iceberg | daily.dev description: Apache Iceberg is an open source table format for large-scale analytics that offers fine-grained control over data, optimized query performance, metadata... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/introduction-to-apache-iceberg-vnvgjbdp9 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Introduction to Apache Iceberg | daily.dev og:description: Apache Iceberg is an open source table format for large-scale analytics that offers fine-grained control over data, optimized query performance, metadata... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/introduction-to-apache-iceberg-vnvgjbdp9 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/VnvgjbDP9.png og:image:alt: Introduction to Apache Iceberg og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Introduction to Apache Iceberg **[InfluxData](https://daily.dev/sources/influxdb)** · 5 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Apache Iceberg is an open source table format for large-scale analytics that offers fine-grained control over data, optimized query performance, metadata management, big data ecosystem integrations, schema evolution support, and ACID transaction support. It is used by companies such as Netflix, Airbnb, and Adobe for data lakes, data lakehouses, and data governance. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#big-data](https://daily.dev/tags/big-data), [#apache-iceberg](https://daily.dev/tags/apache-iceberg) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/introduction-to-apache-iceberg-vnvgjbdp9) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Introduction to Apache Iceberg","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/introduction-to-apache-iceberg-vnvgjbdp9","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/introduction-to-apache-iceberg-vnvgjbdp9"},"datePublished":"2024-05-09T13:56:31.494Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T13:56:30.270Z","description":"Apache Iceberg is an open source table format for large-scale analytics that offers fine-grained control over data, optimized query performance, metadata...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/131d62b3c1aabda776054e5db622bbe2?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/131d62b3c1aabda776054e5db622bbe2?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"InfluxData","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"InfluxData","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/fe5458bda4564e9eb0e51001b4b81374","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/influxdb"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/introduction-to-apache-iceberg-vnvgjbdp9","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"big-data,apache-iceberg","timeRequired":"PT5M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"InfluxData","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/influxdb"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Introduction to Apache Iceberg"}]} ```