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Are open table formats like Iceberg actually worth the migration effort for a small SaaS company currently just querying raw Parquet files in S3?

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Are open table formats like Iceberg actually worth the migration effort for a small SaaS company currently just querying raw Parquet files in S3?
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Apache Iceberg official documentation table format snapshots schema evolution partition evolution hidden partitioningGoogle ↗
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AWS S3 raw Parquet versus Apache Iceberg small data lake operational overhead metadata files compactionGoogle ↗
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Apache Iceberg official documentation table format snapshots schema evolution partition evolution hidden partitioning Google ↗
AWS S3 raw Parquet versus Apache Iceberg small data lake operational overhead metadata files compaction Google ↗

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