Tag: Variant

All the articles with the tag "Variant".

• 31 MIN READ•Aug 24, 2026

  Stop Flattening Your JSON: How Iceberg Variant Changes Semi-Structured Analytics

  Iceberg Variant stores JSON as navigable binary with shredding for columnar filters. Why flattening wide tables is no longer the only performance path.

  Apache IcebergVariantJSON
• 31 MIN READ•Aug 24, 2026

  Variant Shredding Explained: How Iceberg Gets Columnar Performance From Messy JSON

  Variant shredding turns messy JSON into Parquet columns with statistics. How the layout works, how readers reassemble values, and why some queries prune.

  Apache IcebergVariantParquet
• 21 MIN READ•Aug 4, 2026

  How Iceberg V3 Variant Shredding Changed Semi-Structured Data on S3 Tables

  How Iceberg V3's Variant type and Parquet shredding turn JSON columns into prunable typed columns, with real benchmark tradeoffs and a migration path.

  Apache IcebergIceberg V3Variant