Alex Merced • 8/12/2025

Avoiding Metadata Bloat with Snapshot Expiration and Rewriting Manifests

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This technical guide details the causes and consequences of metadata bloat in Apache Iceberg tables, such as slower queries and increased costs. It provides practical solutions using Spark code examples for expiring old snapshots and rewriting manifest files to maintain table efficiency and performance.

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#Metadata Management #Apache Iceberg #Data Lakehouse
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