Today, we're launching R2 Data Catalog in open beta, a managed Apache Iceberg catalog built directly into your Cloudflare R2 bucket. If you're not already familiar with it, Apache Iceberg is an open table format designed to handle large-scale analytics datasets stored in object storage, offering ACID transactions an...
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R2 - R2 Data Catalog is a managed Apache Iceberg data catalog built directly into R2 buckets
Cloudflare Developer Platform Changelog · 2025-04-10
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