My practical 2026 take:
Iceberg for openness.
Delta for Databricks depth.
Hudi for CDC-heavy mutability.
Full breakdown: medium.com/@sriwworldof...
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@sriwworldofcoding.bsky.socialMy practical 2026 take:
Iceberg for openness.
Delta for Databricks depth.
Hudi for CDC-heavy mutability.
Full breakdown: medium.com/@sriwworldof...
@sriwworldofcoding.bsky.socialThe best format is not “the most popular one.”
It is the one that fits your engines, catalog, latency needs, and team operations.
Read the beginner guide:
medium.com/@sriwworldof...
@sriwworldofcoding.bsky.socialA folder of Parquet files is not a table.
It is just storage.
Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, and Hudi turn that storage into a transactional, versioned, queryable data lakehouse table.
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