Introduced in preview as "Cloudflare Data Platform" just over a year ago, Basin combines data ingestion and SQL-based transformation, managed table maintenance, and distributed SQL queries, allowing developers to analyze large datasets without managing infrastructure. Marc Selwan, senior product manager at Cloudflare, and Micah Wylde, principal engineer at Cloudflare, explain why eliminating egress costs is central to the design: A large driving force in the development and adoption of Basin is the continued growth we are seeing in the open Apache Iceberg ecosystem. (...) With Basin, you can read and write your data using any Iceberg-compatible engine, including PyIceberg, DuckDB, Snowflake, and Apache Spark. That kind of data portability is only possible with free egress, which allows developers to access their data in Cloudflare from the wide variety of tools in the ecosystem, regardless of region or cloud.
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Cloudflare Makes Basin Serverless Analytics Generally Available
The managed service supports open data formats and integrates with tools such as DuckDB, Snowflake, and Apache Spark, with no data egress fees.
Reported by infoq.com.
