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An open source community cannot out market big vendors. But can certainly out execute and the judicious engineers will continue making choices based on technical evaluations, to keep it going.

I’d be very surprised if delta goes away, since iceberg still is not feature complete to replace it. Databricks has somewhat of a confusing position now, which is hurting themselves. It’d be interesting to watch.


Yes. Indexes are integrated into reads, with (near) standard SQL for managing them


It’s comparable to and depends on selectivity of the query, like any database index. On a 10TB tpc-ds web_sales with 1:150 selectivity, we see an impressive 95% gain.

If the query fetches out most records for e.g, then gains will be lower


Correct. QUIC also implements TLP. Main advantage is deployability since this is a user-space solution.


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