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It is not yet a table anybody can query.\n\nFive products close the distance between those two things.\n\n## Pipelines\n\nPipelines is Cloudflare's streaming ingest: data arrives over HTTP or from a Worker binding, is transformed with SQL, and is delivered to R2 as Apache Iceberg tables or as Parquet and JSON files. It is in open beta.\n\nToday, every ledger append is a D1 `INSERT` executed inside the request that caused it. That has three costs. It puts a write in the hot path of the thing being recorded. It makes the ledger's throughput a function of D1's write throughput. And it produces rows, not columns — which is why analytical questions are answered by export-and-count.\n\nWith a pipeline, the Worker writes an event to a binding and returns. The pipeline batches, transforms and lands it in R2 in a columnar format. 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Together they are the reason the previous section says \"Iceberg\" rather than \"Parquet files in a bucket\": Iceberg gives the pile of files a schema, a snapshot history and a table identity, and R2 SQL means you do not have to bring your own engine to read it.\n\nEnabling the catalog on an existing bucket is one command.\n\n```\nwrangler r2 bucket catalog enable miscsubjects-ledger\n```\n\nWhat this changes for this build is the nature of an audit. The audit chain is the build's trust mechanism; it is what makes the claim \"nothing is ever overwritten\" checkable rather than asserted. But a trust mechanism that can only be verified by a bespoke script is verified by whoever wrote the script. A ledger as an Iceberg table can be queried by anyone with the credential, including a model, including an outside auditor, with a plain `SELECT`.\n\nThere is a second, quieter benefit. 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