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by georgewfraser 381 days ago
They make a really good criticism of Iceberg: if we have a database anyway, why are we bothering to store metadata in files?

I don’t think DuckLake itself will succeed in getting adopted beyond DuckDB, but I would not be surprised if over time the catalog just absorbs the metadata, and the original Iceberg format fades into history as a transitional form.