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Oracle will interconnect with Google’s cloud to make its database services more widely available, while Microsoft is extending its Azure services into Oracle’s cloud to give OpenAI access to more capacity.
Databricks’ Unity Catalog, now open sourced under the Apache 2.0 license, competes with Snowflake’s Polaris Catalog, which will soon be open source.
While Snowflake is talking up its use of Iceberg to promote interoperability, Databricks is buying Tabular, the tool built on Iceberg’s table format by Iceberg’s creators.
The updates include a new Internal Marketplace and AI-powered Object Descriptions using Copilot.
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.
With losses in decline, the next step will be to hear what plans its new owners have for the open source RDBMS provider.
Other database updates include the availability of an Azure Database for PostgreSQL extension for Azure AI and the addition of Copilot capabilities to Azure SQL DB.
Fabric updates announced at Build 2024 also include Snowflake and Databricks integrations and the general availability of Copilot for Power BI.
At MongoDB.local in New York, the company announced general availabiity of Atlas Stream Processing and other long-awaited features.
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