
Tag: table format
Confluent GAs Tableflow, Adds Flink Native Inference in Bengalaru
Confluent today announced the general availability of Tableflow, the Apache Iceberg-based functionality that it first revealed a year ago. The company also used its conference this week in Bengaluru, India as the platfor Read more…
Onehouse Manages Lakehouse Workloads Across Clouds, Query Engines, and Table Formats
Organizations investing in data lakehouses in 2025 may want to check out a new offering unveiled by Onehouse this week. The company founded by the creator of the Apache Hudi table format launched Onehouse Compute Runtime Read more…
How Apache Iceberg Won the Open Table Wars
Apache Iceberg has recently emerged as the de facto open-table standard for large-scale datasets, with a thriving community and support from many of the leading data infrastructure vendors. But why did Iceberg emerge as Read more…
Polaris Catalog, To Be Merged With Nessie, Now Available on GitHub
Seven weeks after taking the wraps off Polaris Catalog at its annual user conference, Snowflake today announced that its metadata catalog for the Apache Iceberg table format is now available on GitHub and as a public pre Read more…
The Data Lakehouse Is On the Horizon, But It’s Not Smooth Sailing Yet
Data warehouses and data lakes serve clear and distinct purposes. Typically, data warehouses store structured data according to a predefined schema to generate fast query speeds for reporting purposes. Data lakes, on t Read more…
There Are Many Paths to the Data Lakehouse. Choose Wisely
You don’t need a crystal ball to see that the data lakehouse is the future. At some point soon, it will be the default way of interacting with data, combining scale with cost-effectiveness. Also easy to predict is t Read more…
Tabular Plows Ahead with Iceberg Data Service, $26M Round
Apache Iceberg appears to have the inside track to become the defacto standard for big data table formats at this point. And with today’s $26 million round, the company behind the open source project, Tabular, is bette Read more…
Databricks Puts Unified Data Format on the Table with Delta Lake 3.0
Databricks today rolled out a new open table format in Delta Lake 3.0 that it says will eliminate the possibility of picking the wrong one. Dubbed Universal Format, or UniForm, the new table format can read and write dat Read more…
Cloudera Sees Iceberg Everywhere
Cloudera gave its hybrid cloud customers a big boost today when it announced on-prem support for the Apache Iceberg table format. The move gives customers the capability to access and process on-prem data with any Iceber Read more…
The Semantic Layer Architecture: Where Business Intelligence is Truly Heading
The rise of cloud computing, data mesh, and especially data lakehouses all reflect the massive efforts to adopt architectures that will keep pace with the exponential of data constantly growing. But the industry is st Read more…
Open Table Formats Square Off in Lakehouse Data Smackdown
If you’re constructing a data lakehouse today, you’ll need a table format to build on. But which open table format should you choose: Apache Iceberg, Databricks Delta Table, or Apache Hudi? A good place to start is i Read more…
The Key Tech Enabling Cloudera’s New Lakehouse
Cloudera today debuted CDP One, its new software-as-a-service (SaaS) lakehouse offering. For the first time, Cloudera is taking over management of its data platform on behalf of its customers. It’s also Cloudera’s fi Read more…
Lakehouse Update a Warehouse Killer, Dremio Says
Dremio co-founder and Chief Product Officer Tomer Shiran says the data lakehouse architecture updates it announced today at the start of its Subsurface Winter Live conference--including a 60% faster query engine, a new d Read more…