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Two Iceberg Clients, One Protocol: Where the Time Goes

This article provides a step by step comparison of the Rust and Python clients for Apache Iceberg REST catalogs. It times both clients on the same operations against the same tables, then breaks one…

  • Rust Iceberg client is 1.90x to 4.29x faster than Python client on small calls
  • Majority of time difference due to HTTP library: reqwest (Rust) vs requests (Python)
  • pyiceberg supports 21 of 25 catalog endpoints, iceberg-catalog-rest supports 13

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