Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji

Jun 13, 2024 | databricks.com | Matei Zaharia |Ali Ghodsi |Reynold Xin |Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji

We are excited to announce that we are open sourcing Unity Catalog, the industry’s first open source catalog for data and AI governance across clouds, data formats, and data platforms. Here are the most important pillars of the Unity Catalog vision:Open source API and implementation: It is built on OpenAPI spec and an open source server implementation under Apache 2.0 license. It is also compatible with Apache Hive's metastore API and Apache Iceberg's REST catalog API.

Jun 4, 2024 | databricks.com | Ali Ghodsi |Reynold Xin |Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji |Adam Conway

We are excited to announce that we have agreed to acquire Tabular, Inc, a data management company founded by Ryan Blue, Daniel Weeks, and Jason Reid. This acquisition brings the original creators of Apache Iceberg™ and those of Linux Foundation Delta Lake, the two leading open source lakehouse formats, together. As one, we are going to lead the way with data compatibility so that you are no longer limited by which lakehouse format your data is in.