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Can you explain the compaction process for Apache Iceberg tables and how often we should run maintenance jobs to avoid small file problems in our data lake?

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Can you explain the compaction process for Apache Iceberg tables and how often we should run maintenance jobs to avoid small file problems in our data lake?
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Apache Iceberg official documentation rewrite_data_files target-file-size-bytes bin-pack maintenance expire snapshots remove orphan files Google ↗
  1. Maintenance · iceberg.apache.org
  2. iceberg/api/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/actions/RewriteDataFiles.java at main · apache/iceberg · github.com
  3. Procedures · iceberg.apache.org
  4. Procedures · iceberg.apache.org
  5. Maintenance · iceberg.apache.org
  6. Structured Streaming · iceberg.incubator.apache.org
  7. How do I fix small-file problems in an Iceberg table? · answers.databricks.com

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