The Apache data lakehouse community focused on governance this week, with Parquet voting on versioned releases and Polaris aligning with the incubating Ossie semantics project. Iceberg Rust released R…
Apache Polaris, co-created by Snowflake and Dremio, graduated to a Top-Level Project at the Apache Software Foundation in February 2026 after eighteen months of incubation. The project now runs monthl…
ClickHouse, the open-source database, has built a thriving ecosystem around open standards including OpenTelemetry for observability, the Model Context Protocol for AI agents, and open table formats l…
The Apache Iceberg community debated a v2 loadTable endpoint for the REST catalog protocol this week, with Ryan Blue proposing the change to support optional locations and snapshots while moving crede…
Snowflake unveiled a suite of products and enhancements at its Snowflake Summit in San Francisco, aiming to connect AI agents to governed enterprise data under a vision the company calls the "agentic …
Snowflake launched its Interoperable Lakehouse, built on Apache Iceberg, Apache Polaris, and Open Semantic Interchange, to let organizations access, govern, and operate on a single copy of their data …
Snowflake has introduced a Metadata Hub through its Horizon Catalog to unify fragmented data across multiple platforms like Snowflake, AWS Glue, Databricks Unity Catalog, and Microsoft OneLake without…