Great, was just checking we are making a deliberate choice. Thanks for the
context, Vladislav!

It looks like the only candidate for deprecation/removal is iceberg-mr
then. I'll submit a separate discussion for it.

пн, 19 січ. 2026 р. о 04:37 Vladislav Sidorovich via dev <
[email protected]> пише:

> Hey Anton,
>
> Yes, that is correct. I am focusing on the translation logic.
>
> Regarding completeness, I plan to cover all Delta Lake features that have
> equivalents in Apache Iceberg v3. For example, we will convert Delta’s 
> deletion
> vectors to Iceberg deletion vectors. However, features like appendOnly
> won't be included as Iceberg doesn't natively support them in the same way.
>
> In terms of *XTable*, while the tools solve similar problems, XTable is a
> more generic solution. My implementation is specific to the
> Delta-to-Iceberg path and directly extends the existing Iceberg API
> <https://iceberg.apache.org/docs/1.4.3/delta-lake-migration/>.
>
> Additionally, I’ve been tracking XTable for over six months; it appears to
> be less active recently and currently lacks support for key features like
> Iceberg deletion vectors.
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 3:36 AM Anton Okolnychyi <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Vladislav, am I correct that you plan to focus on translation? How
>> complete do you plan the implementation to be? Will it be different from
>> the existing tools like X table?
>>
>> Maninder, thanks for sharing! It is great to know it is being used.
>>
>> чт, 15 січ. 2026 р. о 17:12 Maninder Parmar <[email protected]>
>> пише:
>>
>>> Hi Anton,
>>> Here are the details:
>>> - Public documentation:
>>> https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/tables-iceberg-catalog
>>> - Yes, it's working and being actively used
>>> - No ongoing active development, currently in maintenance mode for any
>>> bug/security fixes
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 2:28 PM Anton Okolnychyi <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> - Talat, can you share how you see the future of the iceberg-delta-lake
>>>> module and what you plan to contribute?
>>>> - Maninder, do we have enough public documentation to explain the state
>>>> of the module? Is it still working? Is it deprecated? What's the plan?
>>>> - iceberg-dell and iceberg-aliyun may not be actively developed but
>>>> primarily target storage and could still be functional?
>>>> - It seems iceberg-mr is a candidate for deprecation / removal?
>>>>
>>>> - Anton
>>>>
>>>> пн, 12 січ. 2026 р. о 12:04 Maninder Parmar <
>>>> [email protected]> пише:
>>>>
>>>>> While we are not actively developing the iceberg-snowflake module, we
>>>>> still see many active usages for it since the migration away from this
>>>>> catalog to iceberg rest based catalogs is ongoing. Would like to keep it
>>>>> here for some more time until we see the usage trend dropping to an
>>>>> acceptable level.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2026 at 2:42 PM Talat Uyarer via dev <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> We plan to upgrade iceberg-delta-lake module.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -1 for iceberg-delta-lake
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM Manu Zhang <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Anton,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I checked related issues and PRs of these modules. Except for a
>>>>>>> recent PR for aliyun[1], there are no activities or interests on other
>>>>>>> modules.
>>>>>>> For iceberg-delta-lake and iceberg-snowflake, I think there are
>>>>>>> already good external tools and platforms.  For iceberg-mr and
>>>>>>> iceberg-dell, I doubt whether there's any usage nowadays.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> +1 to deprecate/remove these modules except iceberg-aliyun.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1. https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/14443
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Merry Christmas
>>>>>>> Manu
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM Anton Okolnychyi <
>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Are there any inactive modules that we can deprecate / remove
>>>>>>>> similar to Pig?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> - iceberg-delta-lake (last meaningful commit in 2023)
>>>>>>>> - iceberg-snowflake (last meaningful commit in 2023)
>>>>>>>> - iceberg-mr (last meaningful commit in early 2024)
>>>>>>>> - iceberg-dell (last meaningful commit in 2023)
>>>>>>>> - iceberg-aliyun (last meaningful commit in 2024)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> - Anton
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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