Seems bad for Snowflake? Iceberg is a big part of Snowflake's data lake offering, and I assumed it was a Snowflake-originated OSS project until this announcement (all Snowflake products have snow related names).
Yesterday we announced Polaris specifically so (1) customers don't get locked into a catalog; (2) people know Snowflake works with AWS, Azure, Confluent, etc.
Iceberg is not Snowflake originated, it was built by folks at Netflix - the same folks who built Tabular.
But yes, this is definitely bad for Snowflake, Databricks can position itself as a very strong competitor with this move and moving more towards Iceberg.
So this makes it sound like a positive thing for Iceberg as a format. Others seem to be suggesting that DataBricks will be working to undermine the format in favor of their older Delta Lake format but that seems overly cynical.
chimerasaurus|1 year ago
Yesterday we announced Polaris specifically so (1) customers don't get locked into a catalog; (2) people know Snowflake works with AWS, Azure, Confluent, etc.
1: https://www.snowflake.com/blog/introducing-polaris-catalog/
seahckr|1 year ago
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/04/databricks-is-buying-data-op...
zwaps|1 year ago
jetru|1 year ago
But yes, this is definitely bad for Snowflake, Databricks can position itself as a very strong competitor with this move and moving more towards Iceberg.
indoordin0saur|1 year ago