https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Apache Iceberg feed https://www.infoq.com/articles/schema-proliferation-problem/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Apache+Iceberg <img src="https://res.infoq.com/articles/schema-proliferation-problem/en/headerimage/schema-proliferation-problem-header-1779270222602.jpg"/><p>Schema proliferation builds slowly and gets expensive fast. One schema per event type feels right until there are ten tables, union queries spanning all of them, and a single field rename touching every schema. Discriminator-based schema consolidation collapses that to two tables, turning multi-table unions into a single query, while new variants are additive and don't break existing consumers.</p> <i>By Spoorthi Basu</i> Java Apache Kafka Apache Iceberg Schema Apache Flink Architecture & Design Development article Mon, 25 May 2026 13:00:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/articles/schema-proliferation-problem/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Apache+Iceberg Spoorthi Basu 2026-05-25T13:00:00Z /articles/schema-proliferation-problem/en https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/05/google-cross-engine-iceberg/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Apache+Iceberg <img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/05/google-cross-engine-iceberg/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1778071626715.jpg"/><p>At the Apache Iceberg Summit last month, Google announced new interoperability features for Apache Iceberg in BigQuery. The preview of the serverless Iceberg REST catalog lets teams create, update, and query the same Apache Iceberg tables in BigQuery and in engines like Spark, Flink, and Trino without duplicating data.</p> <i>By Renato Losio</i> Google BigQuery Cloud Data Lake Google Cloud Apache Iceberg Data Portability Data Catalog AI, ML & Data Engineering Architecture & Design news Sat, 23 May 2026 08:42:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/05/google-cross-engine-iceberg/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Apache+Iceberg Renato Losio 2026-05-23T08:42:00Z /news/2026/05/google-cross-engine-iceberg/en