Robin Moffatt 7/14/2025

Keeping your Data Lakehouse in Order: Table Maintenance in Apache Iceberg

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This technical article details why and how to perform table maintenance in Apache Iceberg, an open table format for data lakehouses. It explains that while Iceberg decouples storage from compute, it does not handle data and metadata housekeeping automatically. The article walks through the process of writing data, the resulting file structure, and the need for maintenance operations to manage metadata and data files efficiently.

Keeping your Data Lakehouse in Order: Table Maintenance in Apache Iceberg

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