# iceberg

**Licence:** Apache-2.0 | **Language:** Java | **Source:** https://github.com/apache/iceberg

## Role

Open table format

## Why it's here

Schema evolution, time travel and snapshots on plain object storage. Your data stays readable by anything, not locked in a warehouse.

## Running it

This is a library, not a service. Install it into your own Python environment or use the official image directly.

```bash
./fetch-sources.sh ./sources
tar xzf ./sources/iceberg.tar.gz -C ./sources
```