How Open Will Snowflake Go at Data Cloud Summit?

Snowflake is holding its Data Cloud Summit 24 conference next week, and the company is expected to make a slew of announcements, which you will be able to find on these Datanami pages. But among the most closely watched questions is how far Snowflake will go in embracing the Apache Iceberg table format and opening…

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Starburst Debuts Icehouse, Its Managed Apache Iceberg Service

Today at its Data Universe event, Starburst launched Icehouse, a new managed lakehouse offering built upon the table format Apache Iceberg. Starburst says the combination of the Trino query engine and Iceberg tables will empower Icehouse customers to achieve new efficiencies in data storage and retrieve. Apache Iceberg is gaining momentum as the standard table…

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