Talk about tenterhooks! But okay, I take your hint. :)
On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 2:17 PM Jack Ye <yezhao...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Nikhil, > > I am also personally very excited about S3 adding this support! > > I would suggest we discuss this after the AWS re:invent 2024 event that is > coming right next week, as there are going to be more S3 feature > announcements during that week, and the community can have a more > comprehensive discussion after knowing all the new S3 features that might > help this domain :) > > Best, > Jack Ye > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 9:36 AM Nikhil Benesch <nikhil.bene...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> With Amazon S3 announcing support for the If-Match header yesterday [0], all >> the >> major object store implementations now support a compare-and-swap operation. >> >> As far as I can tell, this opens up the possibility of storing Iceberg >> catalogs directly on object storage, without the need for a separate >> metastore, >> and without violating any of Iceberg's ACID guarantees. >> >> It seems the immediate next step is to build an independent Java or REST >> catalog >> backend to prove this concept out. Long term, though, the ideal would be to >> have such a catalog backend be a first class citizen in the Iceberg project. >> >> Is anyone else in the Iceberg community barking up this tree? I'm a long term >> Iceberg enthusiast, but new to the community. I'd very much appreciate any >> pointers to current or past discussions on the topic. So far all I've been >> able to turn up is some light chatter from myself and others on Bluesky and >> Hacker News ([1][2][3]). >> >> Cheers, >> Nikhil >> >> [0]: >> https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/11/amazon-s3-functionality-conditional-writes/ >> [1]: https://bsky.app/profile/benesch.bsky.social/post/3lauesxg3ic2c >> [2]: https://bsky.app/profile/eatonphil.bsky.social/post/3lbskq3jwk22e >> [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42240370
