10 Reasons to Make Apache Iceberg Dremio Part of Your Data Lakehouse Strategy

Alex Merced - Tech Evangelist
9 min readMar 2, 2024

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Apache Iceberg is disrupting the data landscape, offering a new paradigm where data is not confined to the storage system of a chosen data warehouse vendor. Instead, it resides in your own storage, accessible by multiple tools. A data lakehouse, which is essentially a modular data warehouse built on your data lake as the storage layer, offers limitless configuration possibilities. Among the various options for constructing an Apache Iceberg lakehouse, the Dremio Data Lakehouse Platform stands out as one of the most straightforward, rapid, and cost-effective choices. This platform has gained popularity for on-premises migrations, implementing data mesh strategies, enhancing BI dashboards, and more. In this article, we will explore 10 reasons why the combination of Apache Iceberg and the Dremio platform is exceptionally powerful. We will delve into five reasons to choose Apache Iceberg over other table formats and five reasons to opt for the Dremio platform when considering Semantic Layers, Query Engines, and Lakehouse Management.

5 Reasons to Choose Apache Iceberg Over Other Table Formats

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Alex Merced - Tech Evangelist

Alex Merced is a Developer Advocate for Dremio and host of the Web Dev 101 and Datanation Podcasts.