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8 posts tagged “snowflake”.

  1. 22 min read

    The Iceberg Catalog Federation Map, November 2026: Which Platforms Read and Write Whose Catalog

    Which platforms read and write whose Iceberg catalog in November 2026, with auth method, write support, release stage and a dated source per edge.

  2. 20 min read

    What Zero-Copy Data Sharing Actually Does Between Salesforce, Snowflake, and Databricks

    What zero-copy data sharing actually does across Salesforce, Snowflake, and Databricks: query federation, file federation, catalog federation, and when.

  3. 31 min read

    Three Vendors Are Rebuilding the Path From Transaction to Agent

    Databricks, Snowflake, and SAP are closing the gap between operational databases and analytical platforms through acquisition, betting on different layers.

  4. 14 min read

    Snowflake Interoperable Lakehouse Lessons

    Interoperable lakehouse announcements matter when they change production contracts, not just import and export narratives.

  5. 14 min read

    Lakehouse Context Layers with Atlan and Iceberg v3

    Lakehouse context layers bridge the gap between raw Iceberg tables and AI agents that need business meaning.

  6. 14 min read

    Apache Iceberg v3 Deletion Vectors on Snowflake

    Apache Iceberg v3 deletion vectors replace positional delete files with binary bitmaps in Puffin files, delivering up to 10x faster DML on Snowflake.

  7. 14 min read

    Bidirectional Iceberg Writes with Horizon Catalog

    Snowflake Horizon Catalog enables bidirectional Iceberg writes from external engines like Spark and Trino, powered by Apache Polaris.

  8. 14 min read

    Semantic View Autopilot in Snowflake Semantic Studio

    Snowflake Semantic View Autopilot automates semantic view creation from query history and BI assets.

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