Another big event in data management in 2024 was the emergence of technical metadata catalogs, such as Apache Polaris and Unity Catalog. The battle for technical metadata supremacy will get even more intense in 2025, predicts Alex Merced, a senior tech evangelist at Dremio.
“The competition to dominate the data catalog space will become a high-stakes showdown,” Merced tells BigDATAwire. “As hybrid and multi-cloud ecosystems grow, organizations will demand seamless interoperability, driving fierce innovation in governance, lineage, and user-defined functions (UDFs). Apache Iceberg will emerge as a key player, redefining standards for open table formats with its hybrid catalog capabilities. This race won’t just reshape data architecture—it will decide who controls the future of data portability.”
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