Delete Files vs Deletion Vectors in Apache Iceberg: How V3 Rewrote the Economics

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<p>Every data engineer I talk to has the same story. Somewhere in their company, there is a table with a column full of JSON strings. Maybe it holds event payloads from a mobile

<p><code>DELETE FROM chunks WHERE document_id = $1</code> makes the rows invisible to queries immediately. It does not remove them from the HNSW index, and it does not remove the

<p>The table format war is over, and the table formats are not. Both halves of that sentence are true, both matter, and the tension between them is exactly why this article needs