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I Compacted 1,000 Apache Iceberg Files Into 6. Here’s What Happened to Query Performance.
Benchmarking the impact of fewer, larger files across three SQL workloads The post I Compacted 1,000 Apache Iceberg Files Into 6. Here’s What Happened to Query Performance. appeared first on Towards Data Science.
By Thomas ReidTowards Data Science

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Originally published by Towards Data Science on Sep 29, 2026.
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