A sold-out, first-time gathering of the Iceberg community in April demonstrated the format’s growing popularity, according to Laurent Bride (pictured, left), chief technology officer of Komodo Health.

Until now, organizations have been forced to make tradeoffs when it comes to managing their data — relying on integrated data platforms or opting for open, interoperable data formats like parquet.

Today, Snowflake kicked off its annual data cloud summit with the launch of Polaris Catalog, a new, open data catalog implementation for indexing and organizing data conforming to the Apache Iceberg ...