You too would be smiling if you sold your company after three years. Source: Tabular.io

You’ve got Databricks Snowflake war all wrong; Tabular Acquired for $1bn

Databricks’ acquisition of tabular show the goal is far greater

August 24 edit: it was $2bn not 1 (see tech crunch August 14)

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I’m Hugo Lu — I started my career working in M&A in London before moving to JUUL and falling into data engineering. After a brief stint back in finance, I headed up the Data function at London-based Fintech Codat. I’m now CEO at Orchestra, which is a data release pipeline tool that helps Data Teams release data into production reliably and efficiently 🚀

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Introduction

It’s the Snowflake Summit at the moment and one of their big announcements was Polaris — a unified “catalog”** that works on Iceberg formats.

This means if you’re a Snowflake user, you can easily see a list of all your tables and associated tables irrespective of where they reside. This streamlines processes like Data Governance, which in turn, helps large organisations get value from their data faster through enhanced…