Data flexibility reimagined: The Cloudera-Snowflake partnership [Video]

Spurred by demands in generative artificial intelligence, supercomputing and advanced analytics, data management is evolving rapidly. In tune with that evolution, Cloudera Inc. is partnering with Snowflake Inc., with several data flexibility integrations and enhancements slated to reach enterprise users.

“The partnership with Snowflake focuses on this thing called the Iceberg REST Catalog, which is basically the ‘easy button’ for different data engines and data compute environments to … talk to any data anywhere so that we can share this data more uniformly,” said David Dichmann (pictured), senior director of product management at Cloudera. “The key ingredient is this Apache Iceberg table format. It’s released data from the confines of proprietary formats. That data is now more freely accessible provided you know how to use it and how you can find the start of the data, get the permissions to the data [and] all those sorts of things.”

Dichmann spoke with theCUBE Research’s Bob Laliberte and co-host Rebecca Knight…