Apache Iceberg vs. Databricks – benchmarked
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The year is 2025, and the data engineering landscape has never been more exciting—or more confusing. Walk into any tech conference, and you’ll hear buzzwords flying around like “lakehouse,” “Delta Lake,” “Iceberg,” and “unified analytics.” But beneath all the marketing noise lies a fundamental question that keeps data architects awake at night: Which platform can actually deliver on the promise of fast, reliable, cost-effective analytics at scale?

To answer this question, we embarked on the most comprehensive benchmark we could design: 1TB of industry-standard TPC-H data, 8.6 billion rows, and two of the most talked-about platforms in modern data eng…

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