Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced that it is open sourcing Unity Catalog, the industry's only unified solution for data and artificial intelligence (AI) governance across clouds ...

“Databricks’ decision to open source Unity Catalog provides a solution that helps eliminate data silos and we look forward to further scaling our platform, enhancing our governance, and modernizing ...

Databricks’ Unity Catalog, now open sourced under the Apache 2.0 license, competes with Snowflake’s Polaris Catalog, which will soon be open source.

How is it different from Snowflake’s Polaris Catalog? With Polaris Catalog, Snowflake has also focused on an open catalog implementation for interoperability, without lock-in.

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.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 12, 2024 — Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced that it is open sourcing Unity Catalog, the industry’s only unified solution for data and artificial intelligence ...