Unlocking Advanced Data Analytics in AWS Athena with New Apache Iceberg Features
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Apache Iceberg has gained significant traction as a table format for large-scale analytics, offering powerful features to streamline data management in data lakes. With its serverless query engine, AWS Athena now supports Apache Iceberg tables, enabling enhanced efficiency for querying data. With the latest updates, AWS Athena introduces several new features that make managing and analyzing your data even more seamless. This podcast will explore these new features, including CTAS support, view creation, transactional data manipulation with the MERGE INTO command, and exceptional metadata views. We’ll also touch on their practical applications and what the future holds.