An iceberg is a piece of ice broken off from a glacier that floats freely in open water, and this definition also provides an appropriate name for the database table format project Iceberg.

AWS bet on the Apache Iceberg open table format (OTF) across its analytics, machine learning, and storage stack as a concerted response to demand from customers already using its popular S3 object ...

Apache Iceberg provides an open table format for interoperability across data lakes, showing the importance of a true open standard. Enterprises have come to view their data as a vital asset, and like ...

No-Headquarters/BOZEMAN, Mont.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), the AI Data Cloud company, announced that it is bringing its core capabilities — unparalleled performance, secure data sharing, ...

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 ...

Databricks and Snowflake are increasingly competing across various products, ranging from Snowflake's massive investments in machine learning to Databricks' expanding data-management tools. However, a ...

Today, Snowflake kicked off its annual data cloud summit with the launch of Polaris Catalog, a new, open data catalog implementation for indexing and organizing data conforming to the Apache Iceberg ...

Offering the combined benefits of data lakes and data warehouses, Dremio’s open lakehouse architecture, built on production-ready Iceberg 1.0, now supports all SQL DML and DDL operations With data ...

Santa Clara, CA, May 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dremio, the unified lakehouse platform for self-service analytics and AI, today announced support for the Apache Iceberg REST Catalog Specification, ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Cloudera has come forward with updates to its platform in line with its product roadmap and used its Evolve25 ...

Until now, organizations have been forced to make tradeoffs when it comes to managing their data — relying on integrated data platforms or opting for open, interoperable data formats like parquet.