Native Iceberg Support

[metalshanked]

Feature Description

What would you like to see added to Sling? Iceberg is now the most popular lakehouse Table format, and most catalog implementations natively support Iceberg REST as well.

I understand that currently, Iceberg is supported via external connectors like Starrocks, Trino, DuckDB, et al.

Of all these, DuckDB is the most lightweight in terms of pre-setup needed to get to your iceberg with a sling goal.

It would be great if Iceberg is treated as a first class citizen like other connectors to ease usage with both Read and Writes.

P.S. This blog is a great workaround; I'm not sure if it applies to iceberg writes too. https://blog.slingdata.io/reading-apache-iceberg-data-with-sling

[flarco]

@metalshanked yes, better integration in on the roadmap. Once updated, the connector will to be treated as a database connector (not a file connection).

[flarco]

Set for next release: https://docs.slingdata.io/connections/database-connections/iceberg