Iceberg Catalog Capability Matrix

The following matrix summarizes the Iceberg Catalog capabilities currently available in Doris. The rows are grouped by capability area, and the backend columns show whether each operation is available when Doris uses the corresponding metadata service. ✅ indicates that Doris supports the operation, and ❌ indicates that the operation is not currently supported.

Capability category	Operation	REST	HMS	Hadoop	Glue	DLF	S3 Tables	JDBC
Namespace / Database	LIST_NAMESPACES	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	LOAD_NAMESPACE	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	NAMESPACE_EXISTS	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	CREATE_NAMESPACE	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
	ALTER_NAMESPACE_PROPERTIES	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	DROP_NAMESPACE	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
	DROP_NAMESPACE_CASCADE	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
	MULTILEVEL_NAMESPACE	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Table lifecycle	LIST_TABLES	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	LOAD_TABLE	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	TABLE_EXISTS	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	CREATE_TABLE	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
	CREATE_TABLE_WITH_LOCATION	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	CTAS	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
	ATOMIC_CTAS	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	REGISTER_TABLE	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	REPLACE_TABLE	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	DROP_TABLE	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
	PURGE_TABLE	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
	RENAME_TABLE	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	✅	✅
	SET_TABLE_LOCATION	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Schema and layout evolution	ADD_COLUMN	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	DROP_COLUMN	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	RENAME_COLUMN	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	ALTER_COLUMN_TYPE	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	ALTER_COLUMN_NULLABILITY	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	SET_TABLE_PROPERTIES	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	UNSET_TABLE_PROPERTIES	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	EVOLVE_PARTITION_SPEC	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	EVOLVE_SORT_ORDER	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
View	LIST_VIEWS	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
	LOAD_VIEW	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
	READ_VIEW	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
	CREATE_VIEW	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	REPLACE_VIEW	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	ALTER_VIEW	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	RENAME_VIEW	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	DROP_VIEW	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Data write	APPEND	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	OVERWRITE_TABLE	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	OVERWRITE_PARTITION	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	DYNAMIC_PARTITION_OVERWRITE	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	UPDATE	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	DELETE	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	MERGE_INTO	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	UPSERT	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	PARTIAL_UPDATE	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	WRITE_TO_BRANCH	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	SCHEMA_EVOLUTION_ON_WRITE	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Transactions and concurrency	ATOMIC_SINGLE_TABLE_COMMIT	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	MULTI_TABLE_COMMIT	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	STAGED_CREATE	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	OPTIMISTIC_CONCURRENCY	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	COMMIT_CONFLICT_DETECTION	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	COMMIT_RETRY	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	COMMIT_IDEMPOTENCY	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	COMMIT_STATUS_RECOVERY	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	LOCK_REQUIRED	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	LOCK_CONFIGURED	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	SERIALIZABLE_ISOLATION	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	FAILED_WRITE_CLEANUP	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Branch / Tag	BRANCH_CREATE	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	BRANCH_DROP	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	READ_BY_BRANCH	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	BRANCH_WRITE	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	BRANCH_FAST_FORWARD	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	TAG_CREATE	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	TAG_DROP	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	READ_BY_TAG	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	TAG_WRITE	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	TAG_FAST_FORWARD	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Snapshot	READ_BY_VERSION	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	READ_BY_TIME	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	ROLLBACK	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	EXPIRE	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Metadata Table	READ_METADATA_TABLE	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Maintenance	REMOVE_ORPHAN_FILES	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	REWRITE_DATA_FILES / COMPACT	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	REWRITE_MANIFESTS	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
	REWRITE_DELETE_FILES	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	EXPIRE_CHANGELOGS	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Data ingestion	ADD_FILES	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	MIGRATE_TABLE	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
	COMPUTE_TABLE_STATS	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌