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Science data comes in tables and tensors

Science data comes in tables and tensors

September 23, 2026

Apache Iceberg comes to Arraylake. Tables now live alongside Icechunk arrays in the same catalog, under the same permissions, in your own buckets — queryable from DuckDB, Spark, Trino, Snowflake, and Zax-SQL.

Joe Hamman

Joe Hamman

CTO & Co-founder

Matt Iannucci

Matt Iannucci

Staff Engineer

Fundamentals: Tensors vs. Tables

Fundamentals: Tensors vs. Tables

April 3, 2025

Multidimensional array data about the physical world is fundamentally incompatible with the tabular data model. Benchmarks show that array-native tools like Xarray and Zarr outperform DuckDB and Parquet by up to 10x for common weather data queries.

Ryan Abernathey

Ryan Abernathey

CEO & Co-founder

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