The big data community gained clarity on the future of data lakehouses earlier this week as a result of Snowflake’s open sourcing of its new Polaris metadata catalog and Databricks’ acquisition of ...

Built on open standards, Unity Catalog is designed to work across every table format and engine. Databricks is now taking that vision further with the Public Preview of full Apache Iceberg support, ...

One of the big breakthroughs in data engineering over the past seven to eight years is the emergence of table formats. Typically layered atop column-oriented Parquet files, table formats like Apache ...

Some people hailed Amazon Web Service Inc.’s December announcement that S3 tables will fully support Apache Iceberg as a crowning triumph for the open-source table format. One of them is Russell ...

Today, Databricks kicked off its annual Data and AI summit with a long-awaited move: the open sourcing of its three-year-old Unity Catalog platform that provides customers a unified solution for their ...

Dremio Corp., the developer of a data lakehouse platform based on the Apache Iceberg table format, today is throwing its support behind the Polaris data catalog that cloud data warehousing firm ...

Databricks’ Unity Catalog, now open sourced under the Apache 2.0 license, competes with Snowflake’s Polaris Catalog, which will soon be open source. Just days after rival data lakehouse provider ...

Unity Catalog is now the most complete catalog for Apache Iceberg™ and Delta Lake, enabling open interoperability with governance across compute engines, and adds unified semantics and a rich ...