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8 articles covering "Apache Iceberg"
EDB announced the acquisition of Altinity on November 5, 2026; terms were not disclosed, integrated ClickHouse offerings are planned for Q4 2026, and two analysts quoted by TechTarget say integration work remains.
InfoWorld and The Register report competing Postgres-plus-Iceberg designs from Databricks, EDB, Snowflake, pgEdge and AWS, with analysts flagging a shared DuckDB dependency and catalog gaps.
Aurora PostgreSQL 17.11+ and 18.6+ can join live tables with Iceberg and Parquet data in S3 through an embedded DuckDB, with no ETL and no extra charge.
Cloudflare renamed R2 SQL, R2 Data Catalog and Pipelines as Basin SQL, Catalog and Pipelines and moved them to GA; R2 egress stays free, but pipeline sinks and queries are metered.
AWS Glue 6.0 launches with 30% lower pricing, complete Apache Iceberg v3 support built on Iceberg 1.11.0, and a modernized Spark 4.1 runtime.
Apache Iceberg 1.11.0 arrives with at-rest encryption across all table files, Spark 4.1 and Flink 2.1 compatibility, and Deletion Vector write support for Flink.
At Cloud Next 2026, Google overhauled its AI cloud stack: Vertex AI becomes the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a new Agentic Data Cloud offers cross-cloud data access via Apache Iceberg, and the Virgo Network delivers 47 Pb/s to connect 134,000-chip training clusters.
The third Iceberg Summit in San Francisco brought 70+ sessions and announcements from Snowflake, Google, Dremio, Databricks, and AWS as the open table format's V3 specification reaches production readiness.