Fluss x Iceberg: Table maintenance operations

[Shekharrajak]

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Motivation

Roadmap 2026 Fluss x Iceberg :

Pillar 6: Maintenance Operations
Lifecycle management for Iceberg metadata and files.

• Snapshot Expiration: Configurable (default: disabled)
• Orphan File Deletion: Configurable (default: disabled)

To achieve this goal with efficiency and with good performance. We can brainstorm/discuss to have fluss-rust + iceberg-rust integration - As per some of the benchmark rust implementation have better performance for all iceberg table maintenance operations .

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Anything else?

Ref apache/fluss#2342 (comment)

Also medium blog compaction with datafusion + rust : https://medium.com/@amitgil87/building-a-distributed-compaction-engine-for-apache-iceberg-with-rust-datafusion-09faa63c1438

Some old discussion to refer : apache/iceberg-rust#624

Willingness to contribute

• I'm willing to submit a PR!