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.
- Powered by Google Cloud's Spanner database
- Implements open Apache Iceberg REST catalog spec
- Supports atomic transactions and massive concurrency
- Designed to minimize operational maintenance
- Aims at enterprise-scale analytics deployments
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