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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It’s a Snowday! Here’s the New Stuff Snowflake Is Giving Customers

Snowflake made a slew of announcements today during its “Snowday 2023” launch event, including a new generative AI offering dubbed Cortex, updates to its Snowpark environment for traditional machine learning, support for Iceberg Tables, updates to its Horizon data governance tool, and a new Snowflake Notebook. The company describes Snowflake Cortex as a fully managed…

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