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As customers modernize to lakehouse architectures, they are standardizing on open formats such as Apache Iceberg to create a shared data estate across compatible engines. This enables you to build AI-native lakehouses that turn data to semantic knowledge, enable proactive action, and operate at an agentic scale.
One of the key components of a lakehouse is the catalog, and in the Apache Iceberg environment, that usually means the Iceberg REST Catalog. An Apache Iceberg catalog is responsible for maintaining table pointers, handling atomic commits, and serving as the single source of truth for table locations. But as large enterprise organizations modernize to lakehouses, they have begun to realize that they need a highly scalable and available managed catalog as a part of their lakehouse architecture. This becomes even more important as querying scales with agents. To support a large amount of repeated small queries from agents, you will need to...
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