Preview: Amazon S3 Tables and Lakehouse in DuckDB

Preview: Amazon S3 Tables in DuckDB Sam Ansmink, Tom Ebergen, Gabor Szarnyas Published on TL;DR: We are happy to announce a new preview feature that adds support for Apache Iceberg REST Catalogs, enabling DuckDB users to connect to Amazon S3 Tables and Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse with ease. In recent years, the Iceberg open table format has become increasingly popular. Major data warehouse platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Google BigQuery and AWS have all announced or already implemented support for Iceberg tables. These platforms also support Iceberg catalogs, which are responsible for tracking current metadata for a collection of Iceberg tables grouped by namespaces. DuckDB has supported reading Iceberg tables since September 2023 via the iceberg extension. Today, we are happy to introduce a new preview feature in this extension, which allows attaching to Iceberg REST catalogs. This preview release coincides with two AWS announcements yesterday: support for Iceberg tables i ... Read full article.