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Databricks open-sources Unity Catalog, challenging Snowflake on interoperability for data workloads
Datbricks' Unity Catalog OSS supports data in any format, including Iceberg and Delta/Hudi (via UniForm) as well as Parquet, CSV and JSON.
Essentially, they would be able to use the information hosted in the catalog with their preferred tools of choice, including a large ecosystem of Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg-compatible query engines. Databricks launched Unity Catalog as a proprietary, closed-source governance solution for accessing and managing data and AI assets within its platform ecosystem. The offering, which went into general availability a couple of weeks ago, automatically generates the metadata needed for Apache Iceberg or Hudi and unifies the table formats into a single copy that can be queried from any supporting engine.
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