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Porting Apache Iceberg Data Agents Across Three Cloud Agent Frameworks
A rigorous benchmark evaluated identical data-agent tools implemented in Google ADK, AWS Strands, and Microsoft Agent Framework across Iceberg REST catalogs. While core tool functions and schemas port cleanly with PyIceberg, response speeds varied by 3.72x at the median due to model verbosity and framework overhead.
September 16, 2026 2 min read
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A rigorous benchmark evaluated identical data-agent tools implemented in Google ADK, AWS Strands, and Microsoft Agent Framework across Iceberg REST catalogs. While core tool functions and schemas port cleanly with PyIceberg, response speeds varied by 3.72x at the median due to model verbosity and framework overhead.