Access externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables through Snowflake Horizon Catalog (Preview)

PreviewAug 18, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

You can now use the Horizon Iceberg REST Catalog (IRC) API to access externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables in a catalog-linked database from external engines such as Apache Spark™, Trino, DuckDB, or PyIceberg.

Governance Apache Iceberg Observability Developer tools

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