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Databricks to Buy Data-Management Startup Tabular

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Re: Databricks to Buy Data-Management Startup Tabular

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Post by chimerasaurus »

Pils wrote: post #3

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).

Disclaimer - I am James on this[1] blog.

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/

Re: Databricks to Buy Data-Management Startup Tabular

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Post by jetru »

Pils wrote: post #3

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).

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.

Re: Databricks to Buy Data-Management Startup Tabular

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Post by zwaps »

chimerasaurus wrote: post #4
Pils wrote: post #3

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).

Disclaimer - I am James on this[1] blog. 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/

Awfully many coming soons in that article

Re: Databricks to Buy Data-Management Startup Tabular

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Post by chimerasaurus »

zwaps wrote: post #6
chimerasaurus wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disclaimer - I am James on this[1] blog. 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/

Awfully many coming soons in that article

No doubt. Ask my team how thrilled I am whenever we say "coming soon."

Narrator: It made him die inside.

Re: Databricks to Buy Data-Management Startup Tabular

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Post by jonnat »

So, will Databricks deprioritize Delta Lake in favor or Iceberg, or will they try to derail Iceberg development now they they got the team that originally built it at Netflix?

Edit: from the Tabular CEO announcement

  Databricks reached out to me and proposed a collaboration that could bring Iceberg and Delta closer together [...] I’m excited to have the opportunity to work with Databricks and the broader Delta community to build better table formats together.
So it seems they are going for the latter.

Re: Databricks to Buy Data-Management Startup Tabular

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Post by seahckr »

chimerasaurus wrote: post #4
Pils wrote: post #3

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).

Disclaimer - I am James on this[1] blog. 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/

This [1] says Snowflake was also bidding to buy Tabular.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/04/databricks-is-buying-data-op...

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