A team needs to query their data lake tables from multiple query engines including Presto; Spark; and Trino. Which open table format provides the broadest multi-engine support?
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Apache Iceberg's open specification has been adopted by the widest range of query engines — including Presto; Trino; Spark; Flink; Dremio; and Snowflake — making it the most interoperable open table format.
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Full Explanation
Apache Iceberg's open specification has been adopted by the widest range of query engines — including Presto; Trino; Spark; Flink; Dremio; and Snowflake — making it the most interoperable open table format. The incorrect options ("Apache Hudi because it is optimized for Spark only", "Delta Lake because it is the only format supported by cloud vendors", "Apache ORC because all engines natively read ORC files") are distractors that don't fully capture the concept described.