Tag: Apache Iceberg
Google Cloud Cranks Up the Analytics at Next 2025
Google Cloud made a slew of analytics-related announcements at its Next 2025 conference this week, including a range of enhancements to BigQuery, its flagship database for analytics. BigDATAwire caught up with Yasmeen Ah Read more…
Dremio Speeds AI and BI Workloads with Spring Lakehouse Release
Dremio used today’s Iceberg Summit as the venue to unleash across-the-board improvements to its data lakehouse platform, including enhancements for data management that will resonate with organizations pursuing anythin Read more…
Snowflake Bolsters Support for Apache Iceberg Tables
Snowflake today introduced a series of enhancements for Apache Iceberg, the open table format that it added to its data platform last year. The big announcement is that Snowflake customers can treat Iceberg tables just l Read more…
Confluent GAs Tableflow, Adds Flink Native Inference in Bengalaru
Confluent today announced the general availability of Tableflow, the Apache Iceberg-based functionality that it first revealed a year ago. The company also used its conference this week in Bengaluru, India as the platfor Read more…
Qlik and dbt Labs Make Big Data Integration Acquisitions
Data never stands still, which makes data integration a perennial challenge. That’s ultimately what drove Qlik and dbt Labs today to announce strategic data integration acquisitions, including Qlik’s purchase of Upso Read more…
Why Data Lakehouses Are Poised for Major Growth in 2025
The humble data lakehouse emerged about eight years ago as organizations sought a middle ground between the anything-goes messiness of data lakes and the locked-down fussiness of data warehouses. The architectural patter Read more…
2025 Big Data Management Predictions
The GenAI revolution has raised expectations for what enterprises can do with data. But it has also exposed some serious shortcomings in how enterprises manage data. That’s the backdrop against which we will dig into t Read more…
AWS Unveils Hosted Apache Iceberg Service on S3, New Metadata Management Layer
AWS today unveiled a new S3 bucket type that’s optimized for storing data in Apache Iceberg, which has become the defacto standard for open table formats. AWS will not only automate the “undifferentiated heavy liftin Read more…
How Apache Iceberg Won the Open Table Wars
Apache Iceberg has recently emerged as the de facto open-table standard for large-scale datasets, with a thriving community and support from many of the leading data infrastructure vendors. But why did Iceberg emerge as Read more…
Dremio Goes Hybrid with Nessie-Based Metadata Catalog
Dremio today announced that the metadata catalog at the heart of its Apache Iceberg-based data lakehouse now supports other popular metadata catalog services, including Snowflake’s Apache Polaris-based catalog and Data Read more…
Cloudera Partners with Snowflake to Optimize Data Integration and Analytics
Cloudera, a hybrid platform for data, analytics, and AI, has announced an integration with Snowflake, an AI-powered cloud data platform, aimed at providing enterprises with an open and unified hybrid data lakehouse. A Read more…
The Open Optimism of Apache Polaris
Since it was first unveiled in June, interest in the Apache Polaris project has soared, as organizations look to the metadata catalog to help them get a handle on their big data and control access to their Apache Iceberg Read more…
Looking Under the Data Catalog Umbrella: What Every CDO Should Know About Iceberg Before Getting Started
The momentum around data catalogs has never been higher than it is today. That said, it probably has never been more confusing to understand the changes and differences of each company and each product’s focus on how i Read more…
Dremio Unveils New Features to Enhance Apache Iceberg Data Lakehouse Performance
Dremio, a data lakehouse company based in Santa Clara, CA, has announced a significant advancement in data lake analytics. The company claims that the new features and advances to the platform can dramatically accelerate Read more…
Polaris Catalog, To Be Merged With Nessie, Now Available on GitHub
Seven weeks after taking the wraps off Polaris Catalog at its annual user conference, Snowflake today announced that its metadata catalog for the Apache Iceberg table format is now available on GitHub and as a public pre Read more…
Data Catalogs Vs. Metadata Catalogs: What’s the Difference?
Data catalogs and metadata catalogs share some similarities, particularly in their nearly identical names. And while they have some common functions, there are also important differences between the two entities that big Read more…
SingleStore Turbocharges Data Lakehouses with Iceberg Support and Faster Vector Search
SingleStore, a real-time data platform for transacting, analyzing, and contextualizing data, has announced a bi-directional integration with Apache Iceberg to enable easier data access for users, and to allow them to bui Read more…
Apache Hudi Is Not What You Think It Is
Vinoth Chandar, the creator of Apache Hudi, never set out to develop a table format, let alone be thrust into a three-way war with Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake for table format supremacy. So when Databricks recently ple Read more…
All Eyes on Databricks as Data + AI Summit Kicks Off
This week, it’s Databricks’ turn to welcome thousands of users, vendors, and members of the data community to San Francisco for its annual Data + AI Summit. Coming off the earth-shattering news last week around Apach Read more…
What the Big Fuss Over Table Formats and Metadata Catalogs Is All About
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 Tabular. The action Read more…
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