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 ...

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.

The competition in the data industry is intensifying as Databricks Inc. vies for dominance. The company has thrown down the gauntlet by open-sourcing its Unity Catalog. Strechay and Gilbert were ...

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 ...