BigQuery Tables For Apache Iceberg Optimize Open Lakehouse

BigQuery native tables have been supporting enterprise-level data management features including streaming ingestion, ACID transactions, and automated storage optimizations for a number of years

BigQuery tables for Apache Iceberg, a fully managed storage engine from BigQuery that works with Apache Iceberg and offers capabilities like clustering

It provide the same feature set and user experience as BigQuery native tables, but they store data in customer-owned cloud storage buckets using the Apache Iceberg format

BigQuery handles table-maintenance duties automatically without requiring client labor when using BigQuery tables for Apache Iceberg

BigQuery tables for Apache Iceberg use Vortex, an exabyte-scale structured storage system that drives the BigQuery storage write API, to provide high-throughput streaming ingestion

BigQuery tables for Apache Iceberg may have a greater rate of modifications than table formats since they are not limited by the need to commit the information to object storage

BigQuery tables for Apache Iceberg are used to export metadata into cloud storage Iceberg snapshots. BigQuery metastore, a serverless runtime metadata service that was revealed earlier this year