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TL;DR: I believe Apache Iceberg won the table format wars, not because of a feature race, but primarily because of the open Iceberg spec. There are some features only available in Iceberg due to the breaking of compatibility with Hive, which was also a contributing factor to the adoption of the implementation.

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