What are the best open table format tools for querying petabyte scale datasets without spending a fortune on cloud storage and compute
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What are the best open table format tools for querying petabyte scale datasets without spending a fortune on cloud storage and compute
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Apache Iceberg Delta Lake Apache Hudi official docs features query engines 2026Google ↗
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Trino documentation Iceberg connector object storage query engine cost performanceGoogle ↗
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DuckDB documentation query Parquet S3 remote files scalability limitationsGoogle ↗
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open source data lakehouse architecture low cost object storage MinIO SeaweedFS Ceph Apache Ozone petabyteGoogle ↗
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Apache Polaris Iceberg catalog open source documentation features 2026Google ↗
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Project Nessie Iceberg catalog branching versioned data lake documentationGoogle ↗
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Apache Iceberg maintenance compaction file size partition pruning metadata best practices documentationGoogle ↗
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Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.
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Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.
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Searches and sources
ChatGPT7 real searches · gpt-6
Apache Iceberg Delta Lake Apache Hudi official docs features query engines 2026 Google ↗
Trino documentation Iceberg connector object storage query engine cost performance Google ↗
DuckDB documentation query Parquet S3 remote files scalability limitations Google ↗
open source data lakehouse architecture low cost object storage MinIO SeaweedFS Ceph Apache Ozone petabyte Google ↗
Apache Polaris Iceberg catalog open source documentation features 2026 Google ↗
Project Nessie Iceberg catalog branching versioned data lake documentation Google ↗
Apache Iceberg maintenance compaction file size partition pruning metadata best practices documentation Google ↗
- Website · trino.io
- Iceberg documentation · trino.io
- Website · duckdb.org
- Documentation · duckdb.org
- Website · spark.apache.org
- Website · clickhouse.com
- Website · datafusion.apache.org
- Website · min.io
- Website · ceph.io
- Website · ozone.apache.org
- Apache Polaris · polaris.apache.org
- Introduction - Project Nessie: Transactional Catalog for Data Lakes with Git-like semantics · projectnessie.org
- Maintenance · iceberg.apache.org
- iceberg/docs/docs/partitioning.md at main · apache/iceberg · github.com
- Nessie · projectnessie.org
- Maintenance · apache.googlesource.com
- Optimizing read performance · docs.aws.amazon.com
- Apache Iceberg · iceberg.apache.org
- Apache Parquet · parquet.apache.org
Semantic map
Every query placed by meaning (EmbeddingGemma 2, 256-d). Shaded regions are topics, nearby points are near-paraphrases, and a circle's size is how often the query came back.
SimulatedReal search
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Queries
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| Query / type | Search | Intent | Query class | Routing format | Cluster | Freq ↓ | Weight |
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Apache Iceberg Delta Lake Apache Hudi official docs features query engines 2026 OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | — | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
Trino documentation Iceberg connector object storage query engine cost performance OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | — | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
DuckDB documentation query Parquet S3 remote files scalability limitations OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | — | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
open source data lakehouse architecture low cost object storage MinIO SeaweedFS Ceph Apache Ozone petabyte OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | — | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
Apache Polaris Iceberg catalog open source documentation features 2026 OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | — | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
Project Nessie Iceberg catalog branching versioned data lake documentation OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | — | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
Apache Iceberg maintenance compaction file size partition pruning metadata best practices documentation OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | — | — | — | 1x of 1 |