Why AI Will Reward Open Data Architectures, and Not Closed Platforms
Both Snowflake and Databricks spent the year racing to support the same open table format, open catalog protocol, and cross-engine governance model. Snowflake shipped Iceberg v3 to general availability at its June Summit and rebuilt its Horizon Catalog on Apache Polaris for two-way Iceberg interoperability. Databricks pushed Managed, Foreign, and v3 Iceberg
