Initiating the discussion thread proposing a new external dataset feature in AsterixDB.
*Feature:* External dataset support for reading Apache Iceberg tables *Details:* Apache Iceberg is a table format for huge analytic tables. It allows time travel queries, partitioning, and fast query planning from its efficient tree-like metadata format, among several other features ( https://iceberg.apache.org/docs/latest/). As part of Iceberg-AsterixDB integration, we first plan to support reading from Iceberg format version-1 tables with AsterixDB as the query engine utilizing our inherent read parallelization. The Iceberg table details will be specified in the external dataset DDL, and all queries will fetch the data from the latest iceberg table snapshot. At present, AWS S3 and HDFS adapters can be used to read Iceberg tables with data files in Parquet format. *Changeset*: https://asterix-gerrit.ics.uci.edu/c/asterixdb/+/17419 *APE*: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ASTERIXDB/APE+1%3A+Iceberg+API+Integration
