Awesome Delta Lake & Apache Iceberg Resources

A curated list of articles, blog posts, videos, and resources about Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg, automatically maintained by our community and AI-powered aggregator.

🌟 Featured Resources

Official Documentation

• Delta Lake Official Docs - Comprehensive Delta Lake documentation
• Apache Iceberg Official Docs - Complete Iceberg documentation
• Delta Lake GitHub - Delta Lake source code
• Apache Iceberg GitHub - Iceberg source code

Specifications

• Delta Transaction Log Protocol - Delta’s ACID transaction protocol
• Iceberg Table Spec - Apache Iceberg’s table format specification

Recent Articles

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Delta Lake 3.2: Liquid Clustering and Improved Performance

Discovered: 2025-02-01

Delta Lake 3.2 introduces Liquid Clustering as a replacement for static partitioning and Z-ordering, automatically reorganizing data based on actual query patterns for improved performance without manual tuning.

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Apache Iceberg 1.5: Row-Level Deletes and Merge-on-Read Improvements

Discovered: 2025-01-15

Iceberg 1.5 ships significant performance improvements for Merge-on-Read tables, enhanced row-level delete efficiency, and expanded metadata statistics support for better query planning across all supported engines.

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Choosing Between Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg in 2025

Discovered: 2025-03-10

A comprehensive comparison of both open table formats, covering ecosystem maturity, vendor support, hidden partitioning, streaming integration, and real-world migration experiences from Databricks and Netflix engineering teams.

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Lakehouse Architecture with Apache Iceberg on AWS

Discovered: 2025-04-01

Step-by-step guide to building an AWS-native data lakehouse using Apache Iceberg with Amazon Athena, AWS Glue, and S3, covering catalog integration, partition management, and compaction automation.

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📚 Learning Resources

Tutorials

• Delta Lake Quickstart - Get started with Delta Lake
• Iceberg Quickstart - Get started with Apache Iceberg
• Migration Guide: Parquet to Delta/Iceberg - Convert existing data lakes

Video Content

• Databricks YouTube Channel - Delta Lake videos and webinars
• Apache Iceberg Talks - Conference presentations

Books

• Delta Lake: The Definitive Guide — Denny Lee, Tristen Wentling, Prashanth Babu, Scott Haines (O’Reilly, 2023)
• Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide — Tomer Shiran, Jason Hughes, Alex Merced (O’Reilly, 2024)
• Building the Data Lakehouse — Bill Inmon, et al.

🛠️ Tools and Libraries

Delta Lake Ecosystem

• delta-rs - Native Rust implementation
• kafka-delta-ingest - Stream from Kafka to Delta
• delta-sharing - Open protocol for data sharing

Iceberg Ecosystem

• PyIceberg - Python library for Iceberg
• Iceberg Go - Go implementation
• Nessie - Git-like version control for data lakes

Query Engines

• Apache Spark - Both Delta and Iceberg
• Trino - Both Delta and Iceberg
• Apache Flink - Excellent Iceberg support
• Dremio - Iceberg-native query engine
• Athena - AWS-managed, supports both

🏢 Case Studies

Delta Lake

• Netflix: Processing petabytes of data with Delta Lake
• Comcast: Real-time streaming analytics
• Adobe: Marketing analytics at scale
• Riot Games: Gaming analytics and ML pipelines

Apache Iceberg

• Netflix: Original creator, uses Iceberg for data warehousing
• Apple: Large-scale data processing
• LinkedIn: Data platform modernization
• Expedia: Travel data analytics

📊 Comparisons and Benchmarks

• Feature Comparison Matrix — In-depth side-by-side comparison (60+ criteria)
• TPC-DS Benchmarks — Delta Lake 3.0 performance results
• Onehouse Lakehouse Format Comparison — Delta, Iceberg, and Hudi compared
• Dremio: Open Table Formats in 2024 — Practical comparison with real workloads

🎓 Courses and Training

Free Courses

• Databricks Academy - Free Delta Lake courses
• Apache Iceberg Tutorials - Official tutorials

Paid Courses

• Udemy: Delta Lake Deep Dive
• Coursera: Data Engineering with Databricks

🔧 Integration Guides

Cloud Platforms

• Delta Lake on AWS
• Delta Lake on Azure
• Delta Lake on GCP
• Iceberg on AWS
• Iceberg on Azure
• Iceberg on GCP

BI Tools

• Tableau with Delta Lake
• Power BI with Delta Lake
• Looker with Iceberg

🎤 Community

Slack Channels

• Delta Lake Slack
• Apache Iceberg Slack

Mailing Lists

• Delta Lake Mailing List
• Iceberg Dev List

Meetups and Conferences

• Data + AI Summit - Annual Databricks conference
• ApacheCon - Apache Software Foundation conference
• Local Data Engineering Meetups

🔬 Research Papers

• Delta Lake: High-Performance ACID Table Storage over Cloud Object Stores
• Apache Iceberg: Unlocking the Power of Open Standards

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Last Updated: 2026-04-27
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