With its plan to make its Polaris data catalog open source, Snowflake hopes the new offering will be seen as vendor-neutral, boosting its attractiveness when compared to Databricks’ Unity Catalog.

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 ...

As customers try to “get artificial intelligence right,” the need to rationalize siloed data becomes increasingly important. Data practitioners could put all their data eggs into a single platform ...

New advancements to Snowflake Horizon Catalog offer thousands of customers and partners, including Merkle and RelationalAI, the universal AI catalog that provides context and governance for AI across ...

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.