This is Part 14 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 13 covered streaming approaches. This article is a practical walkthrough of working with Iceberg on Dremio Cloud, covering table creation, data ingestion, optimization, semantic layer construction, and AI-powered analytics.
Table of Contents
What Are Table Formats and Why Were They Needed?
The Metadata Structure of Current Table Formats
Performance and Apache Iceberg's Metadata











