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Accelerating data lakes: Optimizing Apache Iceberg and Spark with gcs-analytics-core

calendar_today June 2, 2026 person Ajay Yadav domain google-looker

Google Cloud announced gcs-analytics-core, a new open-source Java library designed to centralize and accelerate analytics optimizations for Google Cloud Storage. Available natively in Apache Iceberg Java runtime starting from version 1.11.0, the library introduces Vectored I/O for parallel data fetching and Smart Parquet prefetching to reduce metadata retrieval overhead, with plans to expand to additional analytics engines by end of year.

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