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https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/11/19/have-your-iceberg-cubed-not-sorted-meet-qbeast-the-otree-spatial-index
Have your Iceberg Cubed, Not Sorted: Meet Qbeast, the OTree Spatial Index
Jack Vanlightly
11/19/25
"...a fascinating indexing technique for data lakehouses which flips the role of the index in open table formats like Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake."