Metadata management tools and the data platform shift [Video]

There’s an ongoing changing source of truth amid the data platform shift. It’s a rapidly evolving situation, as companies must consider open table formats and metadata management tools.

The open table format landscape includes Delta Lake, Iceberg and Apache Hudi. Much has happened in recent months, including Databricks Inc. purchasing Tabular Inc., according to Bob Muglia (pictured), entrepreneur and builder.

“In a way, right now, Databricks has controlling capability of both the Iceberg and the Delta formats, but this is important to all the other vendors, and we’ll just watch what happens over the coming months,” Muglia said. “I do think that we’ll continue to see coexistence of these two things. In the last year, fortunately, there have been tools that have been developed to allow for both to be used simultaneously.”

Muglia spoke with theCUBE Research’s George Gilbert at the Supercloud 7: Get Ready for the Next Data Platformevent, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed the evolution …