With its plan to make its Polaris data catalog open source, Snowflake hopes the new offering will be seen as vendor-neutral, boosting its attractiveness when compared to Databricks’ Unity Catalog.

Databricks’ Unity Catalog, now open sourced under the Apache 2.0 license, competes with Snowflake’s Polaris Catalog, which will soon be open source. Just days after rival data lakehouse provider ...

Today, Databricks kicked off its annual Data and AI summit with a long-awaited move: the open sourcing of its three-year-old Unity Catalog platform that provides customers a unified solution for their ...

PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- DataHub, the leading open source AI Context Platform, announced today the addition of two experienced executives to its leadership team: James Mayfield ...

Over the past decade, open-source software has become a transformative force for data science and AI development, collaboration, and innovation. Among its benefits are transparency, cost-effectiveness ...

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From the launch of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, to the continued emergence of Drupal as a content management system, open source made significant strides in 2009. Established products like Firefox and ...