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Cloudflare Basin launches as a serverless Iceberg analytics platform

blog.cloudflare.com by Marc Selwan, Micah Wylde 10 min read Editor score 7/10

Basin is generally available with pipelines that write Apache Iceberg tables to R2, a catalog that maintains Iceberg metadata, and a distributed SQL engine for querying tables. The integrated design is relevant to engineers evaluating serverless analytics and lakehouse infrastructure.

What: Cloudflare Basin is a serverless analytics platform built on Apache Iceberg and R2 Object Storage.
How: Basin Pipelines ingests events, transforms them with SQL, and writes Iceberg tables or files; Basin Catalog manages metadata and Basin SQL queries tables.
Why it matters: Engineers can build analytics flows from data ingestion through querying, with distributed queries split across Workers as datasets grow.

Basin ingests events into R2 and Iceberg tables, which its catalog and SQL engine support. Sketched from the article's own text.

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