Crunch compatibility
Supported platforms and file formats for Granica Crunch.
Granica Crunch supports a range of platforms, file formats, and cloud providers. This page details what's compatible today and what's coming soon.
Supported formats
| Cloud | Storage | Format | Versions / notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | Amazon S3 | Delta Lake | 3.2.x, 3.3.x, 4.1.x · Unity |
| AWS | Amazon S3 | Apache Iceberg | 1.6.1, 1.10.1 · HMS, Polaris, more catalogs coming |
| AWS | Amazon S3 | Apache Parquet | 1.13.x, 1.15.x · 1.16.x coming soon |
| AWS | Amazon S3 | Hive | External tables · Managed tables |
| GCP | Google Cloud Storage | Delta Lake | 3.2.x, 3.3.x, 4.1.x · Unity |
| GCP | Google Cloud Storage | Apache Iceberg | 1.6.1, 1.10.1 · HMS, Polaris, more catalogs coming |
| GCP | Google Cloud Storage | Apache Parquet | 1.13.x, 1.15.x · 1.16.x coming soon |
| GCP | Google Cloud Storage | Hive | External tables · Managed tables |
| Azure | Blob Storage · ADLS Gen2 | Delta Lake | 3.2.x, 3.3.x, 4.1.x · Unity |
| Azure | Blob Storage · ADLS Gen2 | Apache Iceberg | 1.6.1, 1.10.1 · HMS, Polaris, more catalogs coming |
| Azure | Blob Storage · ADLS Gen2 | Apache Parquet | 1.13.x, 1.15.x · 1.16.x coming soon |
| Azure | Blob Storage · ADLS Gen2 | Hive | External tables · Managed tables |
| All clouds | S3, GCS, ADLS Gen2 | Object maintenance | Non-ACID, PB-scale object stores |
Runtime Crunch compatibility
Runtime Crunch currently works with Apache Spark. Support for additional engines is planned:
- Apache Spark — V3.5.x supported, EMR 7.x · Spark V4 and EMR 8.x coming soon
- Apache Flink — Coming soon
- Trino — Coming soon
Background Crunch compatibility
Background Crunch currently works with Apache Spark. Support for additional engines is planned:
- Apache Spark — V3.5.x supported, EMR 7.x · Spark V4 and EMR 8.x coming soon
- Apache Flink — Coming soon
- Trino — Coming soon
Crunch maintains full data integrity and format compliance. Crunched files remain valid Parquet files that any standards-compliant reader can process without modification.
Architecture
Understand the Granica Crunch platform architecture, deployment models, and the separation between control plane and data plane.
Tour of the Granica Console
A guided tour of the Granica Console's two primary workspaces — Table Maintenance for catalog-registered tables, and Object Maintenance for raw object store prefixes.