Fokko commented on code in PR #1616: URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1616#discussion_r2285997343
########## website/src/introduction.md: ########## @@ -19,4 +19,19 @@ # Iceberg Rust -Iceberg Rust is a rust implementation for accessing iceberg tables. +`iceberg-rust` is a Rust implementation for managing Apache Iceberg tables. + +## What is Apache Iceberg? + +[Apache Iceberg](https://iceberg.apache.org) is a modern, high-performance open table format +for huge analytic datasets that brings SQL-like tables to processing engines including Spark, Trino, PrestoDB, Flink, Hive and Impala. + +Rather than being a new file type, Iceberg provides a metadata layer that sits on top of formats like Parquet +and ORC, ensuring data is organized, accessible, and safe to work with at scale. It introduces features long +expected in databases such as transactional consistency, schema evolution, and time travel into environments +where files are stored directly on systems like Amazon S3 or HDFS. Review Comment: I'm not sure if we should mention HDFS. Iceberg does support filesystems, but it's main target storage are object-stores. For example, it does not do any list or rename operations -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
