CIOs are (still) closer than ever to their dream data lakehouse

Just in the past year, Confluent, Oracle, and Salesforce all added support for Iceberg. Snowflake doubled down on Iceberg with Polaris. Microsoft, the last cloud service provider holdout – likely due to its investment in Delta Lake – joined Snowflake’s coming out party in June. And, of course, Databricks has been expanding coverage rapidly as well.

“It’s just amazing to me how far Iceberg has come,” said Snowflake’s Spitzer. “I used to have to explain why people should care about (Iceberg). And now, everyone knows. And everyone knows that everyone’s moving towards it.”

Iceberg creates a great foundation for combining and working with different data stores for projects. And now that the enterprise data analytics community is basically bought in, the next stage of work is happening at the catalog layer. And where AWS, Cloudera, Databricks, Snowflake, and others are all working to help Iceberg work as well as possible with as much data as possible.