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Polaris is production-ready today. Organizations are already using its RBAC, catalog federation, credential vending, Iceberg SQL views, and generic tables to govern multi-engine lakehouses at scale.

Explore leading AI and ML data integration services, learn selection criteria and see how Dremio powers agents and automation

Explore the 11 best alternatives to Hadoop in 2026, learn how to select the best solution for your enterprise to reduce costs and accelerate query performance.

Learn how enterprise data fabric supports AI, analytics and governed data access across modern hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Explore enterprise data platform architecture, use cases and selection criteria. See how Dremio supports analytics and AI at scale.

A table format is a specification that defines how to organize metadata about data files so that query engines can treat them as reliable, transactional tables. It sits between the query engine and the physical files.

Adding a column to a large production table used to require a plan. You'd write the migration script, schedule a maintenance window, kick off a backfill job that rewrote every data file to include the new column, and then wait. For a table with billions of rows on a busy lake, that wait could stretch […]

Something I keep hearing in conversations with customers and prospects right now is a version of the same frustration: we have executive buy-in, budget approved, models selected, and we still cannot ship anything meaningful. The AI initiative is stalled, and everyone is looking at the data team. Then there are the teams who are already […]

Your organisation has probably already had the "AI agents" conversation. Maybe it was at a board meeting, maybe it surfaced during quarterly planning, or maybe a team came to you with a proposal and a timeline. Either way, the conversation almost certainly centred on the AI: which model, which vendor, which use case. Very few […]

This guide explores what semantic layers are, their benefits and how they’re implemented within your enterprise data stack.

Dremio is not a traditional data warehouse. It is a unified platform that eliminates data silos through a federated query engine, secures your object storage with an Iceberg-based lakehouse, and accelerates insights with an Agentic AI layer.

Retail analytics decisions: markdown timing, campaign activation, inventory replenishment. They are supposed to be data-driven. But at most retailers, the data isn't ready when the decision needs to be made. Your merchandising team sends a request to data engineering on Monday. The report comes back Thursday. By then, the sell-through window has shifted, the promotion […]

Compare 19 Databricks alternatives for data analytics, AI and lakehouse workloads, built to accelerate SQL and simplify operations.

The main differences come down to architecture, cost and AI readiness. Snowflake requires copying data into its warehouse and charges per compute credit consumed. Dremio queries data in place with Zero-ETL federation and includes an AI semantic layer, a built-in AI agent, and autonomous optimization. For a full breakdown, see the Dremio vs Snowflake comparison.

Accelerating the Agentic Lakehouse Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Dremio has agreed to join forces with SAP, pending regulatory approval. Together, we will be able to deliver one open platform where agents reason over all enterprise data, decide, and act. This acquisition will give us the scale and backing to accelerate our agentic vision, […]