I’ll just point out on the Snowflake side, we’ve been very public saying we want Iceberg/Parquet to be at or as close to parity as possible with our native format. The value add is the platform, not lock in. That also forces us to be the best on open formats, which IMO is also a good thing for everyone.
Disclaimer: I work at Snowflake literally on this with my team. :)
> we’ve been very public saying we want Iceberg/Parquet to be at or as close to parity as possible with our native format
Thats great to hear. Would this mean that external iceberg tables would have the same performance as native table ? My impression of parent comment was that, eventually there would be no such thing as 'native format'.
Really interested to see public statements by snowflake to that effect, would love to share that with my team.
Disclaimer: I work at Snowflake literally on this with my team. :)