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Google Cloud launches managed Iceberg catalog on Spanner

Google Cloud has introduced a managed runtime catalog for Apache Iceberg lakehouses, built on its scalable Spanner database. The new serverless catalog aims to handle the scale and reliability required by enterprises running production analytics, promising atomic transactions, high availability, and support for the open Iceberg REST catalog standard. The catalog is designed to support massive concurrency, simplify maintenance, and enforce governance as organizations move toward AI-native data architectures.

Why it mattersLakehouse architectures are becoming standard for organizations moving large-scale analytics and AI workloads to the cloud. A robust, scalable catalog like this one could make Iceberg deployments easier to manage and more reliable, addressing key pain points around consistency and availability.

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