Direct Iceberg access in AlloyDB
To make good business decisions, you need two kinds of data: the live state of the business from operational databases, and the historical context stored in an analytical system such as a lakehouse or a data warehouse. Traditionally, those systems have been separate, but they are now converging rapidly. That’s why today, we're announcing direct Iceberg access in AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, in preview. Now, developers can query Apache Iceberg tables stored in a cloud storage bucket directly from AlloyDB and join them with live operational data, all in a single SQL query.
In addition, we’re announcing the general availability of AlloyDB sync and Lakehouse federation. Together, they give AlloyDB three ways to work with the borderless Lakehouse, which keeps one open copy of your data available to any engine. Etsy, for example, unified three petabytes with the borderless Lakehouse, joining data in place to accelerate pipeline queries...
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