Apache Iceberg

The Infotrust complements Snowflake with Apache Iceberg, the new standard for open data lakes. Iceberg brings structure and governance – ACID transactions, schema evolution, and fast queries – to massive datasets stored on cloud object storage. Crucially, it works seamlessly across Azure, AWS, and GCP, ensuring portability and avoiding lock-in at the storage level. Iceberg is ideal for cost-efficient, long-term data retention while keeping data open and usable for multiple engines, from Spark to Trino.

Snowflake and Iceberg are not competitors but natural partners. Snowflake now queries Iceberg tables natively, letting us ingest data once and use it in two ways: high-performance analytics in Snowflake and open, shareable storage in Iceberg. This hybrid approach gives clients flexibility – leveraging Snowflake’s ease of use and governance while maintaining the freedom of an open standard for AI and advanced workloads. In short, it’s a future-proof architecture that balances performance, openness, and cost efficiency.