The force is strong in Iceberg: Are the table format wars entering the final chapter?

Former Apple engineer and Apache PMC member Russell Spitzer describes efforts to unite around a single format

Interview  In June, Databricks shelled out $1 billion for Tabular, a startup backer of the open source Apache Iceberg table format, signalling just how important the rather niche topic had become. It was a move which shocked the Iceberg community.…