Tag: orphan file cleanup

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• 7 MIN READ•Apr 29, 2026

  Maintaining Apache Iceberg Tables: Compaction, Expiry, and Cleanup

  Keep Iceberg tables fast with compaction, snapshot expiry, orphan cleanup, and manifest rewriting. Here is when and how to run each operation.

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