[fifilura]

I am currently considering whether it is worth moving our stack from Hive type tables to Iceberg. Iceberg is obviously technically more competent, but the Hive tables are just so nice because the data is almost orthogonal from the tables.

You can throw away a table and recreate it in minutes and vice versa you can edit the data and the table will adapt.

I am so used to this and I am worried of loosing this flexibility with Iceberg.

Maybe a mix is the way to go.

TFA is very well written by the way. From my perspective I see Iceberg as Hive tables 2.0. Solving a lot of the Hive related problems but not all generic database problems. So all new features are positive for me.

But my only gripe is - is the added complexity worth it?