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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.
EDB Postgres AI combines a PostgreSQL database, a data lakehouse, and other components to support transactional, analytic, and AI workloads.
The acquisition would help Snowflake deliver evaluation and monitoring capabilities for LLM-based applications and machine-learning models for customers.
Fabric updates announced at Build 2024 also include Snowflake and Databricks integrations and the general availability of Copilot for Power BI.
The analytics platform provider joins a long list of vendors who already support the open table formats.
Enterprises that already subscribe to Teradata VantageCloud Lake will be able to download Python and R packages from the Anaconda Repository at no additional cost.
Free Snowflake Native Application appears to eliminate the complexity of self-managing a data clean room for non-technical users, analysts said.
BigQuery’s update will make it easier to prepare data for AI with speech-to-text and document processing.
The assets acquired from Advanced will enhance IBM Consulting’s mainframe application and data modernization services, IBM said.
Survey of enterprise users of generative AI finds rapid adoption but also hurdles, with difficulty finding business use cases, legal uncertainties, and high infrastructure costs top concerns.
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