Iceberg

• MinIO AIStor Tables and Iceberg V3: Genuine Engineering, Premature Ecosystem

  MinIO claims AIStor Tables is the first data store with native Apache Iceberg V3 support, embedding the catalog directly into object storage. The technical architecture is sound and the V3 features are real. But with Trino, Athena, and Snowflake still lacking V3 support, being first to an unfinished spec raises questions about who can actually use this today.

• VAST DataBase Benchmarks: The Numbers We Can't Verify

  VAST Data claims 25% faster than Iceberg, 60x faster updates, and 500M messages per second. The numbers are impressive—but without published methodology or independent verification, they remain marketing claims, not engineering data.