Qbeast's OTree Index Actually Made My Spark Queries Stop Scanning the Whole Lake

TL;DR: The query that broke me was deceptively simple: give me all delivery events within a bounding box of roughly 50km², filtered by timestamp and vehicle type, from a Delta table sitting at about 10TB. Spark read the entire thing.

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What's in this article

1. The Problem: Full Table Scans on a 10TB Delta Lake
2. What Qbeast Actually Is (Without the Marketing Fluff)
3. Installing Qbeast: What the README Doesn't Warn You About
4. Writing Your First OTree-Indexed Table
5. Querying with Tolerance Sampling — The Feature That Actually Changes Things
6. 3 Things That Surprised Me After Running This in Practice
7. When Qbeast Makes Sense vs When to Skip It
8. Rough Edges and Open Issues Worth Knowing

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The Problem: Full Table Scans on a 10TB Delta Lake

The query that broke me was deceptively simple: give me all delivery events within a bounding box of roughly 50km², filtered by timestamp and vehicle type, from a Delta table sitting at about 10TB. Spark read the entire thing. Every. Single. Time. Wall clock: 40 minutes. Compute bill: ugly.

Partitioning by date got me maybe a 60% data reduction on the timestamp filter, but the spatial component still forced a full scan of every remaining file. The root issue is a fundamental mismatch — lat/lon columns have near-infinite cardinality, and Hive-style partitioning collapses completely under that kind of pressure. You can't partition by latitude because you'd end up with millions of partition directories, one per degree, sub-degree, or whatever granularity you pick. And even if you tried, a bounding box query crosses partition boundaries in two dimensions simultaneously. Partition pruning only works when your predicate aligns cleanly with how data is physically laid out on disk. Spatial predicates almost never do.

I tried Z-ordering (Delta's OPTIMIZE ... ZORDER BY (lat, lon)) and it helped — queries dropped to maybe 18 minutes. But Z-ordering in vanilla Delta is a post-write operation. Every time new data lands, you run OPTIMIZE again on affected files, which at our ingestion rate meant either a constantly stale Z-order or an expensive maintenance job eating cluster time every hour. The deeper problem is that Z-ordering in Delta doesn't give you a queryable index structure you can interrogate before planning a scan. Spark still opens file statistics, but it's doing min/max column stats across each Parquet file — not a real spatial index. Files that partially overlap your bounding box still get read in full.

I found Qbeast while digging through a GitHub issue thread about exactly this problem — someone asking why ZORDER BY with geospatial columns still resulted in full scans on large tables. A reply buried halfway down mentioned an OTree-based indexing format that integrates with Delta Lake and Delta Spark. Not a blog post, not a product landing page — a GitHub comment with a link to the qbeast-spark repository. That's how I ended up down this rabbit hole. The pitch buried in the README was interesting: instead of partitioning or post-hoc reordering, Qbeast restructures how data is written so that multi-dimensional queries can skip entire subtrees of the index without touching files that don't contribute to your result. That's a fundamentally different approach, and it's why I kept reading. If you're also evaluating AI-assisted tooling to speed up debugging sessions like the one that led me here, Best AI Coding Tools in 2026 (thorough Guide) has an honest breakdown of what's actually useful versus what's hype right now.

What Qbeast Actually Is (Without the Marketing Fluff)

The thing that surprised me most about Qbeast is what it isn't: it's not a new storage format, not a Spark replacement, not a warehouse product. It's a library that plugs into Delta Lake and adds a smarter indexing layer on top. Your data still lives in Parquet files inside a Delta table. Qbeast just controls how those files get organized and which ones get skipped at query time. You can write a Qbeast table today and read it tomorrow with vanilla Delta Lake — the data is still there, just without the index benefits.

The OTree index is recursive space partitioning. Imagine you have a table with columns latitude, longitude, and timestamp. OTree treats those three columns as axes in 3D space and recursively splits the data space into cubes — each cube becomes a node in a tree. Files map to nodes, and when a query arrives with a range predicate on those columns, Qbeast walks the tree and skips entire subtrees that don't overlap the query box. What makes it interesting is that the partitioning is adaptive: nodes split when they accumulate more rows than a configurable desiredCubeSize threshold, so high-density regions of your data space get finer-grained nodes automatically. Low-density regions stay coarse. This is very different from a static grid.

Delta Lake's native Z-order is a one-shot operation. You run OPTIMIZE ... ZORDER BY (col1, col2), it rewrites all the files, sorts the data along a Z-curve, and that's it — until the next time you run OPTIMIZE. It's a compaction command, not a live index. OTree is built at write time and maintained incrementally. Every insert updates the tree without a full rewrite. The practical difference shows up in append-heavy pipelines: with Z-order, your freshly appended files are unsorted until the next OPTIMIZE job runs. With Qbeast, new data is indexed on arrival. The trade-off is that Qbeast writes are slightly more complex internally, and you're adding a dependency that Delta alone doesn't require.

As of this writing the stable release is qbeast-spark 0.6.x. Always verify the latest tag before you pin a version — the project moves faster than most Delta ecosystem tooling and there have been breaking changes between minor versions. The GitHub releases page at github.com/Qbeast-io/qbeast-spark/releases is the source of truth. The Maven coordinates look like this:

// build.sbt or spark-submit --packages
"io.qbeast" %% "qbeast-spark" % "0.6.0"

// or via spark-submit
spark-submit \
  --packages io.qbeast:qbeast-spark_2.12:0.6.0 \
  --conf spark.sql.extensions=io.qbeast.spark.delta.DeltaCatalog \
  your_job.py

The Scala 2.12 vs 2.13 artifact suffix matters here — get it wrong and you'll spend twenty minutes staring at a ClassNotFoundException before realizing the issue. Match it to your Spark build. Spark 3.3 and 3.4 are the tested targets for 0.6.x; Spark 3.5 support is listed as experimental in the release notes at time of writing.

Installing Qbeast: What the README Doesn't Warn You About

The dependency matrix is where most people lose a Saturday afternoon. I got stable results with Spark 3.4.x + Delta Lake 2.4.x + Scala 2.12 — and that combination matters more than the Qbeast version number itself. I tried Spark 3.5 first because it was newer and it silently broke the catalog registration; no error, just the OTree index never materialized. Dropped back to 3.4.2, same Qbeast JAR, everything worked. If you're on Scala 2.13 builds, there's no published artifact yet, so you're either cross-compiling from source or sticking with 2.12.

Adding the package itself is straightforward. Pass it at launch time for either spark-shell or pyspark:

# spark-shell
spark-shell \
  --packages io.qbeast:qbeast-spark_2.12:0.6.0 \
  --conf spark.sql.extensions=io.qbeast.spark.internal.QbeastSparkSessionExtension \
  --conf spark.sql.catalog.spark_catalog=io.qbeast.spark.delta.DeltaCatalog

# pyspark equivalent
pyspark \
  --packages io.qbeast:qbeast-spark_2.12:0.6.0 \
  --conf spark.sql.extensions=io.qbeast.spark.internal.QbeastSparkSessionExtension \
  --conf spark.sql.catalog.spark_catalog=io.qbeast.spark.delta.DeltaCatalog

If you're running a persistent cluster or a notebook environment where you can't pass flags at startup, put these in spark-defaults.conf instead. This is the config you actually need — not the minimal snippet in the README:

# $SPARK_HOME/conf/spark-defaults.conf

spark.sql.extensions          io.qbeast.spark.internal.QbeastSparkSessionExtension
spark.sql.catalog.spark_catalog  io.qbeast.spark.delta.DeltaCatalog

# Delta also needs its own extension — keep both here, comma-separated
# Qbeast's DeltaCatalog wraps Delta internally, so you don't add Delta's catalog separately
spark.jars.packages           io.qbeast:qbeast-spark_2.12:0.6.0

The gotcha that will bite you if you already have Delta configured: Delta Lake's own catalog entry — io.delta.sql.DeltaSparkSessionExtension and org.apache.spark.sql.delta.catalog.DeltaCatalog — cannot coexist with Qbeast's catalog as separate entries. The docs make it sound like you just append Qbeast on top of your existing Delta setup. You can't. Qbeast's DeltaCatalog already wraps Delta internally, so if you leave Delta's own catalog entry in place, you get a catalog conflict at session init. Remove the Delta-specific catalog line and keep only Qbeast's. The Delta extension for SQL syntax (io.delta.sql.DeltaSparkSessionExtension) can stay in the extensions list alongside Qbeast's — that part is fine.

Before you point this at any real data, run a fast local smoke test with a small CSV to confirm the extension actually loaded:

# drop this into spark-shell after startup
val df = spark.read
  .option("header", "true")
  .option("inferSchema", "true")
  .csv("/tmp/test_data.csv")

df.write
  .format("qbeast")
  .option("columnsToIndex", "longitude,latitude")  // swap for columns in your CSV
  .option("cubeSize", "10000")
  .save("/tmp/qbeast_test_output")

// If the extension isn't loaded, this throws:
// "Failed to find data source: qbeast"
// If it works, you'll see OTree cube files under /tmp/qbeast_test_output/

spark.read.format("qbeast").load("/tmp/qbeast_test_output").count()
// should return your row count without errors

The error message "Failed to find data source: qbeast" is your early warning that the JAR didn't register correctly — usually because the catalog config was wrong or Delta's conflicting entry is still present. Fix the config before writing anything to S3 or HDFS, because a failed write to object storage mid-job leaves partial files that are annoying to clean up and can confuse subsequent reads.

Writing Your First OTree-Indexed Table

The option that every quick-start tutorial breezes past is columnsToIndex. Get this wrong and you either get a table that ignores Qbeast's spatial properties entirely, or you index the wrong columns and every spatial query still does a full scan. The index is built at write time, not as a background job, so there's no "add index later" escape hatch — pick your columns before you write.

Here's a real geospatial write in Python. I'm using latitude and longitude as the indexed dimensions, which is the most common starting case, but columnsToIndex accepts any numeric columns — event timestamps paired with user IDs, price paired with volume, whatever your dominant query filters are:

# df is a Spark DataFrame with at minimum latitude and longitude columns
# cubeSize is rows-per-cube, not bytes — this trips people up constantly
(
    df.write
    .format("qbeast")
    .option("columnsToIndex", "latitude,longitude")
    .option("cubeSize", "300000")
    .save("/data/geo_events")
)

Choosing cubeSize is genuinely non-obvious and the docs treat it like a footnote. The value is a target row count per cube, not a file size. If you set it too low — say 50,000 — you end up with thousands of tiny Parquet files and your query planner spends more time on file listing than actual I/O. Too high — say 5 million — and the OTree has so few nodes that the spatial pruning barely helps; you're reading huge files to get a small geographic slice. My rule: start at 300k–500k rows for typical analytical workloads on a mid-size cluster. If your individual partition files are consistently under 32MB after writing, bump cubeSize up. If spatial queries are still reading 80%+ of the dataset, bring it down.

The on-disk layout is where it gets interesting compared to a plain Delta table. A regular Delta write gives you a flat directory of Parquet files plus a _delta_log/ folder with JSON transaction entries. Qbeast gives you that same structure, but adds a _qbeast_metadata/ directory containing revision files. Each revision file is a JSON document describing the OTree cube boundaries, the indexed columns, the cube size target, and which Parquet files map to which cube IDs:

/data/geo_events/
├── _delta_log/
│   └── 00000000000000000000.json
├── _qbeast_metadata/
│   └── revision_1.json        # cube topology lives here
├── part-00000-abc123.parquet
├── part-00001-def456.parquet
└── ...

The revision_1.json is worth inspecting manually after your first write. It tells you the actual min/max domain boundaries Qbeast detected for your indexed columns, which matters if your data has outliers — a handful of GPS coordinates with bogus values like 0.0, 0.0 can inflate the root cube's bounding box and degrade selectivity for the entire tree. If you see a root domain way larger than your actual data distribution, filter out the bad rows before writing. One bad row at (0,0) in a dataset of US coordinates will force the root cube to span the Atlantic Ocean.

One more gotcha: columnsToIndex is comma-separated with no spaces. 'latitude, longitude' (with a space) silently indexes a column named " longitude" which doesn't exist, and Qbeast may fall back to a degenerate behavior rather than throwing a loud error. I burned 40 minutes on this. Use 'latitude,longitude' exactly.

Querying with Tolerance Sampling — The Feature That Actually Changes Things

The thing that actually surprised me about Qbeast wasn't the indexing — it was what the index enables at query time. Most spatial indexes are about speeding up range scans. Qbeast's OTree index makes sampling semantically meaningful, which is a completely different value proposition. If you've ever tried to do exploratory analysis on a 500GB Delta table by pulling a 10% sample, you know that Spark's native .sample(0.1) is essentially a coin flip per row — you get statistical noise dressed up as a representative dataset.

# Native Spark sampling — random row selection, ignores data distribution
df = spark.read.format("delta").load("/data/events")
df.sample(0.1).groupBy("region").agg(avg("revenue")).show()
# ^ Results will be unreliable for sparse categories in multi-dimensional space

# Qbeast sampling — OTree-aware, respects spatial distribution
df = spark.read.format("qbeast").load("/data/events")
df.sample(0.1).groupBy("region").agg(avg("revenue")).show()
# ^ Each OTree cube contributes proportionally; sparse regions still represented

The underlying mechanism is that OTree cubes are built by distributing rows such that each cube holds roughly the same weight (the desiredCubeSize you set at write time). When you ask for 10%, Qbeast reads complete cubes from the top of the tree down until it accumulates that fraction. This means your sample preserves the multi-dimensional density structure. A random sample on a dataset skewed by, say, geography and timestamp will massively undersample rural low-traffic regions. Qbeast's sample won't, because the index already spread those sparse rows into their own cubes.

File skipping is where you actually see this in execution metrics. Enable adaptive query execution and compare the tasks before and after indexing the same dataset:

-- Before indexing (raw parquet/delta), full scan
SET spark.sql.adaptive.enabled = true;
EXPLAIN ANALYZE
SELECT region, avg(revenue)
FROM raw_events
TABLESAMPLE (10 PERCENT);
-- Files read: 1,840   Rows read: ~50M   Time: 4m 12s

-- After writing with Qbeast format
-- spark.write.format("qbeast")
--   .option("columnsToIndex", "timestamp,latitude")
--   .option("cubeSize", "500000")
--   .save("/data/events_qbeast")

EXPLAIN ANALYZE
SELECT region, avg(revenue)
FROM qbeast.`/data/events_qbeast`
WHERE qbeastSample = 0.1;
-- Files read: 187    Rows read: ~5M    Time: 28s

The qbeastSample hint triggers the OTree file pruning — only cubes at the appropriate tree depth get opened. You go from touching every file to touching a small subtree of the index. That 10x file reduction isn't tunable magic, it's a direct consequence of how the cube weights are balanced at write time. If your cubeSize was too small, you'll have deep trees and the file count reduction is less dramatic. I found 300K–500K rows per cube is a reasonable starting point for datasets in the hundreds of millions of rows.

The tolerance parameter is where you can shoot yourself in the foot. Qbeast lets you specify a fraction tolerance — essentially how precisely the sample fraction needs to be honored. Set it tight and Qbeast has to read partial cubes, which defeats some of the file skipping. Set it aggressively loose (say, ±30%) and you get blazing fast results that may represent 7% or 13% of your data instead of 10%:

df = (spark.read
    .format("qbeast")
    .option("tolerance", "0.3")   # Accept samples between 7% and 13% for 10% request
    .load("/data/events_qbeast")
    .sample(0.1))

The approximation is real and the library doesn't warn you loudly about it. If you're feeding this into a model training pipeline and you assume exactly 10% stratification, a 30% tolerance will bite you. Where it makes sense is interactive dashboards — a business stakeholder querying revenue trends on a 1TB table doesn't need 10.0000% sampling precision. For that use case, aggressive tolerance gives you sub-second response times instead of multi-minute scans, and the charts look the same. Know what you're trading before you tune that parameter.

3 Things That Surprised Me After Running This in Practice

The write slowdown is the one that'll blindside you if you don't plan for it. On a 500GB initial load into a Qbeast table, I measured roughly 2–3x slower ingestion compared to writing the same dataset into plain Delta Lake. The OTree construction isn't free — every write has to figure out where data points land in the multi-dimensional space and maintain the index structure accordingly. If you're bulk-loading historical data before switching to incremental appends, carve out that extra time in your pipeline. I made the mistake of running this during a prod window and had to explain why a "simple format migration" took six hours instead of two.

# Rough timing comparison I ran on a 500GB Parquet → table load
# Plain Delta write:
spark.read.parquet("s3://bucket/raw/").write \
  .format("delta") \
  .save("s3://bucket/delta-table/")
# Wall time: ~42 minutes

# Qbeast write with OTree on two columns:
spark.read.parquet("s3://bucket/raw/").write \
  .format("qbeast") \
  .option("columnsToIndex", "latitude,longitude") \
  .option("cubeSize", "500000") \
  .save("s3://bucket/qbeast-table/")
# Wall time: ~110 minutes — budget accordingly

The revision model caught me completely off guard. I assumed the OTree index updated continuously on every append, like how Delta's transaction log grows on each write. That's not how it works. Qbeast organizes data into revisions, and new appends may land as unindexed fragments until a new revision is triggered. The analyzeTable command is what you call to get Qbeast to assess the current data distribution and inform when an optimize/reindex makes sense. If you're appending frequently and never calling this, your query performance will degrade silently — the index structure gets stale and file skipping becomes less effective over time. I had a pipeline running for two weeks before I noticed point queries slowing down and traced it back to having zero revision management in place.

-- After significant appends, run this before your next query-heavy window
ANALYZE TABLE qbeast_table COMPUTE STATISTICS;

-- Then check revision state via the Qbeast metadata
-- (Spark SQL, assuming qbeast-spark 0.6.x)
SELECT * FROM qbeast_table WHERE qbeast_revision_id IS NOT NULL LIMIT 5;

-- Force an optimize pass to consolidate fragments into the current revision
OPTIMIZE qbeast_table;

The read side is where Qbeast genuinely delivered beyond what I expected. I had a table with about 800 million rows, indexed on pickup_longitude and pickup_latitude. A tight bounding box query — say, a 0.05° × 0.05° box over Manhattan — would have required scanning dozens of files with Hive-style partitioning, because partitioning on two float columns at that granularity is impractical. With the OTree index in place, Spark's query plan showed file skipping down to 3–7 files for the same query. That's not a benchmark I ran once — I repeated it across different bounding boxes and consistently saw 80–90% of files eliminated. Partitioning on a single coarse bucket gave me maybe 40% elimination on a good day.

The deeper reason this works is that OTree recursively subdivides the multi-dimensional space into cubes, so files naturally contain spatially coherent data. A tight bounding box filter maps cleanly onto a small number of cubes. Hive partitioning can only give you one dimension of real locality (or at best a coarse composite). The moment your filter touches two continuous columns — coordinates, timestamps + user IDs, price ranges — Qbeast's file skipping pulls ahead. Where I wouldn't bother: single-column equality filters on high-cardinality string columns. For those, plain Delta with Z-ordering or a bloom filter index is simpler and has less write overhead.

When Qbeast Makes Sense vs When to Skip It

The sampling story is what actually got my attention first. Most "efficient sampling" implementations I've seen end up doing a full scan and then filtering — they just hide the cost from you. Qbeast's OTree index lets you return a statistically representative sample by reading a bounded set of cubes at the top of the tree, skipping the rest entirely. If you're building an ML pipeline where you need to sample 5% of a 10TB feature table every training run, that difference between "scan 500GB" and "scan the first two tree levels" is the difference between a 40-minute job and a 3-minute job. That use case is real and I haven't seen Delta or Hudi offer anything equivalent without a separate aggregation layer on top.

Multi-column range queries are the other strong case. The OTree partitions data along multiple dimensions simultaneously during write, so a query like WHERE sensor_id BETWEEN 100 AND 200 AND ts BETWEEN '2024-01-01' AND '2024-03-01' AND elevation BETWEEN 50 AND 300 maps directly onto the index structure. Qbeast can skip entire cube subtrees that don't overlap the query box. With Delta Z-order, you get similar data co-location, but Z-order is a write-time transformation applied once — it doesn't give you the recursive tree structure that enables the sampling trick, and it degrades as you add more columns because the Z-curve locality guarantees weaken fast past 3 dimensions. Geospatial workloads (lat/lon/elevation combos), IoT (device_id + timestamp + metric), and sensor fusion datasets are the natural fits here.

Skip Qbeast if your queries are mostly single-column. A query like WHERE region = 'us-east-1' or WHERE user_id = 12345 is served just fine by Hive-style partitioning on that column, or by Delta's built-in file statistics and data skipping. You don't need a multi-dimensional spatial index for point lookups — you're adding operational complexity to solve a problem that doesn't exist. Z-order in Delta on a single column is literally just sorting, and sorted Parquet files with min/max stats already give you most of the skipping benefit.

The dependency risk is real and you should weight it honestly. Qbeast is a Spark/Delta extension. The community is small compared to Apache Iceberg (thousands of contributors) or Delta Lake (backed by Databricks). When you hit a weird edge case — and you will, especially around compaction behavior, cube rebalancing, or how it interacts with Delta checkpointing — you're likely reading source code on GitHub rather than finding a Stack Overflow answer or a Databricks support ticket. My threshold: if your team has one person who has debugged Spark physical plans and is comfortable with Scala, you're probably fine. If everyone on the team is a Python-first data scientist who treats the query engine as a black box, the operational risk isn't worth it for most production pipelines.

Here's how the three actually compare at the technical level:

• Qbeast OTree: Optimizes for multi-dimensional range queries AND bounded-cost representative sampling. Writes are slower because the OTree structure has to be maintained. Reads for multi-column range queries and sampling are genuinely faster. Requires the Qbeast-Spark extension running on your cluster.
• Delta Z-order: Optimizes for multi-dimensional locality at query time via OPTIMIZE ... ZORDER BY (col1, col2). It's a one-shot rewrite job, not a continuously maintained structure. No sampling shortcuts. Works anywhere Delta works with zero extra dependencies. Locality degrades with column count but is totally fine for 2-3 columns.
• Hudi Clustering: Optimizes for write-heavy workloads with upserts, then sorts/clusters data within partitions using a space-filling curve (similar idea to Z-order). The clustering is triggered by Hudi's inline or async table services. Stronger story for CDC/streaming ingestion than Qbeast. Sampling is not a first-class feature.

The decision tree I'd actually use: need multi-dimensional sampling as a first-class operation → evaluate Qbeast seriously. Need multi-column skipping with no new dependencies and 2-3 columns → Delta Z-order is fine. Running high-throughput upserts with MOR tables → Hudi clustering. Everything else → just partition by your highest-cardinality filter column and stop overthinking it.

Rough Edges and Open Issues Worth Knowing

The thing that bit me first wasn't a bug — it was catalog compatibility. Qbeast writes valid Delta Lake format under the hood, but it layers additional metadata that tools expecting a vanilla Delta catalog don't know what to do with. If you're running dbt with the delta adapter or connecting Tableau/Power BI through a Delta-aware connector, you'll need to explicitly configure them to ignore or pass through the extended statistics. dbt in particular will try to run its own table reflection and can choke on the OTree metadata columns. The fix is usually straightforward — point dbt at the raw Delta path and treat Qbeast as a read target rather than a managed table — but it's not documented well enough that you'd figure it out in under an hour.

Compaction and index maintenance is the rougher edge. Delta's OPTIMIZE + ZORDER BY is a known quantity at this point — the tooling is mature, the behavior is predictable, and there's solid documentation on when to run it. Qbeast's revision management story isn't there yet. You can trigger index maintenance like this:

// Analyze and compact the OTree index after heavy writes
val qbeastTable = QbeastTable.forPath(spark, "/data/events")
qbeastTable.analyze()
qbeastTable.optimize()

But the operational questions — how often should you run this, what's the cost at 500GB vs 5TB, how do you know when the index has degraded — aren't answered in the docs with the same depth you'd get from the Delta or Hudi communities. I ended up running analyze() after every significant batch load and watching query times manually to decide when optimize() was worth it. That's a fine approach at small scale; it's not a production runbook.

Community support is honest if you set your expectations correctly. The GitHub issues repo does get responses, and the core team is clearly active. But if you open a tricky question on a Friday, you're probably looking at early next week before you get traction — not the same-day turnaround you might get from, say, the Delta Lake or Apache Spark communities with their much larger contributor bases. For a production system where an index corruption or a weird read regression needs fast answers, factor that into your on-call story. Having someone who can actually read and debug the Scala source is a real mitigation here.

The biggest strategic gap as of 0.6.x: there's no native Iceberg support. If your organization is moving toward an Iceberg-first lakehouse — which a lot of orgs are, especially those standardizing on Apache Polaris or AWS Glue with Iceberg REST catalog — Qbeast doesn't fit that picture today. You'd be committing to Delta as your table format, and if the org direction reverses six months from now, migrating the data isn't catastrophic but migrating the index is another story. Watch the Qbeast roadmap issues tagged iceberg before you build anything load-bearing on this. The spatial indexing idea is format-agnostic; the implementation isn't there yet.

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