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The Database Doctor
Personal blog · database-doctor.com/postsdataprogramming
The Database Doctor is a personal blog at database-doctor.com about data and programming. Since 2025, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Iceberg Is Wrong”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts on the Apache Iceberg spec and data lake design, arguing from a database reliability view that OLAP databases, temporal columns and fixing OLTP schemas may suit better.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The Database Doctor's blog
Most-linked posts?
- Iceberg Is Wrong6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-07-09
- Iceberg, the Right Idea – The Wrong Spec – Part 1 of 2: History3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-07-07
What Hacker News says?
I read this [0] (I also recommend reading part 1 for background) a few weeks ago, and found it quite interesting. The entire concept of data lakes seems odd to me, as a DBRE. If you want performant OLAP, then get an OLAP DB. If you want temporality, have a created_at column and filter. If the problem is that you need to ingest petabytes of data, fix your source: your OLTP schema probably sucks and is causing massive…
Comment linking /posts/iceberg-is-wrong-2.html
on “Apache Iceberg V3 Spec new features for more efficient and flexible data lakes”Submitted Iceberg, the right idea – the wrong spec – Part 2 of 2: The spec as a story · 35 points
HN discussionPart II - https://database-doctor.com/posts/iceberg-is-wrong-2.html
Comment linking /posts/iceberg-is-wrong-2.html
on “Iceberg, the Right Idea – The Wrong Spec – Part 1 of 2: History”Submitted Joins Are Not Expensive as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Iceberg Is Wrong as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Iceberg, the Right Idea – The Wrong Spec – Part 1 of 2: History as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Iceberg, the Right Idea – The Wrong Spec as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Iceberg, the Right Idea – The Wrong Spec as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Iceberg, the Right Idea – The Wrong Spec – Part 1 of 2: History as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted In depth analysis of database workloads and benchmarks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Iceberg, the Right Idea – The Wrong Spec – Part 1 of 2: History as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Iceberg, the Right Idea – The Wrong Spec – Part 1 of 2: History as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted TPC-H Query 1: Column Storage and Local Aggregation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Iceberg, the Right Idea – The Wrong Spec – Part 2 of 2: The Spec as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Iceberg, the Right Idea – The Wrong Spec – Part 2 of 2: The Spec as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
