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course: Apache Iceberg™️

Partitioning and Partition Evolution

11 min
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Tim Berglund

VP Developer Relations

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Gilles Philippart

Software Practice Lead

In this episode of our Apache Iceberg + Tableflow course, Tim explains how Apache Iceberg’s hidden partitioning lets query engines prune files by time and region, evolve from monthly to daily partitions without rewrites, and avoid the small-file problem while keeping billion-row tables fast.

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Total 19

  1. Introduction
    2 min
  2. Architecture and Concepts
    9 min
  3. Catalog
    6 min
  4. Hands-on Exercise: Catalog
  5. ACID Transactions
    13 min
  6. Updates and Deletes
    15 min
  7. Data Types and Schema Evolution
    13 min
  8. Hands-on Exercise: Schema Evolution
  9. Partitioning and Partition Evolution
    11 min
  10. Hands-on Exercise: Partitioning
  11. Clustering
    6 min
  12. Time Travel and Rollback
    10 min
  13. Hands-On Exercise: Time Travel
  14. Tagging and Branching
    15 min
  15. Hands-On Exercise: Tagging and Branching
  16. Metadata Tables
    10 min
  17. Table Maintenance
    12 min
  18. Hands-On Exercise: Table Maintenance
  19. Query Engines and Ecosystem
    5 min

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