In the early 2010s, Apache Hadoop dominated the big data conversation. Organizations raced to adopt it, seeing it as the cornerstone for scalable, distributed storage and processing. Today, Apache Iceberg is emerging as a cornerstone for data lakes and lakehouses in the modern data stack.And yet, for those who lived through the “Big Data era,” a deeper look reveals striking parallels between Iceberg’s trajectory and the story of Hadoop.Let’s explore these parallels and what they mean for the fut...