docs: tidying; update version refs; describe various catalogues

crates/iceberg/src/catalog/mod.rs

@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ pub trait CatalogBuilder: Default + Debug + Send + Sync {
 /// NamespaceIdent represents the identifier of a namespace in the catalog.
 ///
 /// The namespace identifier is a list of strings, where each string is a
-/// component of the namespace. It's catalog implementer's responsibility to
+/// component of the namespace. It's the catalog implementer's responsibility to
 /// handle the namespace identifier correctly.
 #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Hash, PartialOrd, Ord)]
 pub struct NamespaceIdent(Vec<String>);

website/src/api.md

@@ -24,8 +24,22 @@
 * Create and list namespaces.
 * Create, load, and drop tables
 
-Currently only rest catalog has been implemented, and other catalogs are under active development. Here is an 
-example of how to create a `RestCatalog`:
+There is support for the following catalogs:
+
+| Catalog | Description |
+|---------|------------|
+| `Rest`   | the Iceberg REST catalog              |
+| `Glue`          | the AWS Glue Data Catalog             |
+| `Memory` | a memory-based Catalog                |
+| `HMS`           | Apache Iceberg HiveMetaStore catalog  |
+| `S3Tables`      | AWS S3 Tables                         |
+| `SQL`           | SQL-based catalog                     |
+
+Not all catalog implementations are complete.
+
+## `RestCatalog` 
+
+Here is an example of how to create a `RestCatalog`:
 
 ```rust,no_run,noplayground
 {{#rustdoc_include ../../crates/examples/src/rest_catalog_namespace.rs:create_catalog}}

website/src/install.md

@@ -26,8 +26,14 @@ Cargo 1.75.0 or later is required to build.
 Add `iceberg` and `iceberg-catalog-rest` into `Cargo.toml` dependencies:
 
 ```toml
-iceberg = "0.2.0"
-iceberg-catalog-rest = "0.2.0"
+iceberg = "0.6.0"
+iceberg-catalog-rest = "0.6.0"
+```
+
+using `cargo add`:
+
+```bash
+$ cargo add iceberg iceberg-catalog-rest
 ```
 
 iceberg is under active development, you may want to use the git version instead:

website/src/introduction.md

@@ -19,4 +19,19 @@
 
 # Iceberg Rust
 
-Iceberg Rust is a rust implementation for accessing iceberg tables.
+`iceberg-rust` is a Rust implementation for managing Apache Iceberg tables.
+
+## What is Apache Iceberg?
+
+[Apache Iceberg](https://iceberg.apache.org) is a modern, high-performance open table format
+for huge analytic datasets that brings SQL-like tables to processing engines including Spark, Trino, PrestoDB, Flink, Hive and Impala. 
+
+Rather than being a new file type, Iceberg provides a metadata layer that sits on top of formats like Parquet 
+and ORC, ensuring data is organized, accessible, and safe to work with at scale. It introduces features long
+expected in databases such as transactional consistency, schema evolution, and time travel into environments 
+where files are stored directly on systems like Amazon S3 or HDFS.
+
+Originally developed at Netflix, it was designed as a response to the limitations of early Hive tables, which were
+essentially directories of files with only loose conventions for schema and partitioning. While this approach
+enabled cheap storage of large datasets, it struggled with schema changes, concurrent writes, and efficient query
+planning.