Structural differences and limitations for Apache Iceberg

Table mode limitations

Apache Iceberg does not support Incremental table mode.

No subsetting, but support for table filtering

Apache Iceberg workspaces do not support subsetting.

However, for tables that use the De-Identify table mode, you can provide a WHERE clause to filter the table. For details, go to Using table filtering for data warehouses and Spark-based data connectors.

No upsert

Apache Iceberg workspaces do not support upsert.

No output to a container repository

For Apache Iceberg workspaces, you cannot write output to a container repository.

Post-job scripts require DuckDB

For Apache Iceberg workspaces, any post-job scripts must use DuckDB.