Dremio today announced that the metadata catalog at the heart of its Apache Iceberg-based data lakehouse now supports other popular metadata catalog services, including Snowflake’s Apache Polaris-based catalog and Databricks Unity Catalog. The lakehouse provider says the move in its Project Nessie-based metadata catalog will bolster architectural flexibility in the cloud, on-prem, and everywhere in between.
Before metadata catalogs suddenly jumped into the big data consciousness earlier this year, Dremio had been quietly backing its own metadata catalog, dubbed Project Nessie, to provide the necessary housekeeping that a lakehouse based on Apache Iceberg tables requires.
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