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 ...

The name of Databricks' annual conference has gone from "Spark Summit" to "Spark + AI Summit" and now to "Data + AI Summit." The evolution of the event name tracks Databricks' own transition from the ...

The competition in the data industry is intensifying as Databricks Inc. vies for dominance. The company has thrown down the gauntlet by open-sourcing its Unity Catalog. Strechay and Gilbert were ...

Unity Catalog in Databricks centralizes governance for data and AI, offering a unified way to manage permissions, track lineage, and maintain compliance across workspaces. Its structured object model ...

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.