Have your Iceberg Cubed, Not Sorted: Meet Qbeast, the OTree Spatial Index

Have your Iceberg Cubed, Not Sorted: Meet Qbeast, the OTree Spatial Index — Jack Vanlightly

In today’s post I want to walk through a fascinating indexing technique for data lakehouses which flips the role of the index in open table formats like Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake. We are going to...