Rubrik Brings Iceberg Backup Into the Recovery Layer
Backup vendors are starting to treat Iceberg tables as recoverable, query-ready assets, raising the bar for resilience in lakehouse architectures.
What is this trend?
Rubrik is moving Apache Iceberg backup from simple data protection into a recovery layer that can restore tables as immediately queryable assets, not just recover files.
- Backs up Iceberg metadata and data files together for full table recovery
- Restores tables in place or as new tables and re-registers them for query engines
- Shifts competition from backup objects to portable, recoverable open-table assets
- Strengthens the case for multi-engine lakehouses built on Iceberg portability
What’s the latest?
Rubrik’s new Iceberg-native backup for AWS pushes the format into a higher-value operational layer: it backs up both Iceberg metadata and underlying data files for tables managed through AWS Glue Data
How it developed
- Runtime AI Governance, Sovereign Deployment, and Open Table Formats Move to the Write Path
- Open Table Formats Move Into the Write Path
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