[CT-1492] [Feature] Add support for Iceberg Tables

[teej]

Is this your first time submitting a feature request?

• I have read the expectations for open source contributors
• I have searched the existing issues, and I could not find an existing issue for this feature
• I am requesting a straightforward extension of existing dbt-snowflake functionality, rather than a Big Idea better suited to a discussion

Describe the feature

Snowflake has announced support for Iceberg Tables, an external table format but with full interoperability as a 1st class snowflake table.

Once this feature goes live, dbt-snowflake should support materializing a model as an external iceberg table.

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Who will this benefit?

• dbt users who want their models available as parquet files in storage they control
• dbt users who want an easy way to interoperate with non-dbt systems that use the iceberg table format
• dbt users who want direct access and control over the underlying storage of their data

Are you interested in contributing this feature?

yes

Anything else?

Iceberg Tables are in private preview as of 2022-11-10

[erniedeferia]

+1

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[jaklan]

Any chance to put more light on that? We really need a Snowflake equivalent of https://github.com/dbt-athena/dbt-athena to push forward the adoption of open table format (which, I believe, would be also pretty crucial for dbt to support in the long term).

[multiprocessingh]

+1 here! This would be super useful to support for enterprise sas use cases!

[WangCHEN9]

+1 here!

[DLewisEndeavor]

+1 here! Looking into Iceberg for enterprise sharing across platforms

[apd-bscally]

+1, Iceberg is now in public preview on Snowflake

[mourtallah]

+1 here!

[VSchmidts]

+1 here!

[ksdaly]

+1

[ZergRocks]

+1

[sfc-gh-ripu]

+1

[jimvekemans]

+1, will work on this a bit in the coming weeks and, if successful, open a pull request

[dennysrega1ado]

+1

[waitsfornone]

+1 here. We are adopting Iceberg tables as our data lake format and I would love to generate the tables out of Snowflake with dbt.

[mikezusev]

+1

[zewang-sanofi]

+1

[sfc-gh-wriley]

+1 :-)

[njrogers]

+1

[Fleid]

Hey all! Thanks for "upvoting", please continue to do so.
We are wrapping up all the internals work to support 1.8, plus a few more things to do for quality of the plugins and how we test them, and then Iceberg will be at the top of the list!

[sfc-gh-ftrejo]

+1

[sfc-gh-wriley]

Is this now LIVE...? Was slated for APRIL release?

[sivakanthavel-tigeranalytics]

+1

[antonio-yuen-zocdoc]

Any news on this?

[dweaver33]

Any update? We're looking into iceberg tables on Snowflake now as well.

[freemanrickhuang]

+1

[colin-rogers-dbt]

We will be prioritizing this work over the next couple of weeks. Please stay tuned.

[davegot12]

+1

[mnoumanshahzad]

+1

[VersusFacit]

Just to update, I'm actually drafting out features right now. We have a table prototype going if you want a sneak peek. Fair warning, we have some performance issues to navigate given Snowflake metadata constraints.

We are actively scoping incremental tables out :)

#1170

[TomRutten]

+1

[harveymarshall]

+1

[VersusFacit]

For those following closely along, we just merged the PR I linked above into main. 🚀

its_happening.gif

So, the Iceberg table materialization is live for those who like to live at the bleeding edge of our adapters. (we don't recommend this 😅 )

It will take the next 2-3 weeks for us to QA it for Cloud / release in a formal OSS version.

Caveat

Because of some metadata query latency, this feature will be gated behind a behavior flag: enable_iceberg_materializations. Early adopters will need to use this flag in their project configurations to enable Iceberg features.

Snowflake in a future release will alter their metadata queries to remove this latency hit, at which point we'll remove the need for the flag in the first place.

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Onto incremental models next.

[VersusFacit]

Closing this out as we've shipped support:

• tables
• DTs
• incremental models

Docs for these have shipped and live

[will-sargent-dbtlabs]

@VersusFacit It's my understanding that this is live in cloud today. For core users, is this available in the 1.9 beta series or 1.8?

[sfc-gh-dsotolongo]

@VersusFacit I don't see Iceberg in the docs you linked. Maybe the link incorrect, or the docs have not yet been released?

[dataders]

@VersusFacit I don't see Iceberg in the docs you linked. Maybe the link incorrect, or the docs have not yet been released?

hey @sfc-gh-dsotolongo sorry you only see them if you have the Version="Versionless" in the dropdown. This URL with a query param should take you right there.
https://docs.getdbt.com/reference/resource-configs/snowflake-configs?version=1.9.1#iceberg-table-format-

@will-sargent-dbtlabs For core users, it's in the 1.9 beta series