Pronunciation: kill-UCK (ᑭᓪᓚᖅ)
Killaq is an Inuktitut word describing an opening or a hole in the ice that provides access to the water below. It is the vital "opening in the ice" for the Apache Iceberg ecosystem.
In an Arctic landscape, the surface ice acts as a barrier to the resources beneath. A Killaq is the essential gateway—the precise point where that barrier is breached.
While your data resides within the frozen layers of the "Iceberg" storage, this project acts as the singular entry point (the REST Catalog), allowing compute engines and analytical tools to "fish" for the data flowing underneath the surface.