With its plan to make its Polaris data catalog open source, Snowflake hopes the new offering will be seen as vendor-neutral, boosting its attractiveness when compared to Databricks’ Unity Catalog.

Databricks’ Unity Catalog, now open sourced under the Apache 2.0 license, competes with Snowflake’s Polaris Catalog, which will soon be open source. Just days after rival data lakehouse provider ...

Today, Databricks kicked off its annual Data and AI summit with a long-awaited move: the open sourcing of its three-year-old Unity Catalog platform that provides customers a unified solution for their ...

IBM was the first major computer power to embrace Linux. Now, decades later, they along with their partners, CA Technologies and Rocket Software, have announced Zowe, a new open-source software ...

Over the past decade, open-source software has become a transformative force for data science and AI development, collaboration, and innovation. Among its benefits are transparency, cost-effectiveness ...