paul-rogers commented on a change in pull request #1953: Add docs for Drill 
Metastore
URL: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/1953#discussion_r374450331
 
 

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+---
+title: "Drill Iceberg Metastore"
+parent: "Drill Metastore"
+date: 2020-01-31
+---
+
+Drill uses Iceberg Metastore implementation based on [Iceberg 
tables](http://iceberg.incubator.apache.org). For Drill 1.17,
+ this is default Drill Metastore implementation. For details on how to 
configure Iceberg Metastore implementation and
+ its option descriptions, please refer to [Iceberg Metastore 
docs](https://github.com/apache/drill/blob/master/metastore/iceberg-metastore/README.md).
+
+{% include startnote.html %}
+Iceberg table supports concurrent writes and transactions but they are only 
effective on file systems that support
+ atomic rename.
+If the file system does not support atomic rename, it could lead to 
inconsistencies during concurrent writes.
 
 Review comment:
   This worries me. S3 does not support atomic renames: renames make a copy. 
Will metastore work on S3? If not, we should call out that Drill 1.17 supports 
only the local file system, HDFS and similar systems. Drill 1.17 does not 
support S3 because S3 does not provide atomic rename.

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