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.

The purpose of this, besides simply wanting to know what were indeed the most popular, open-source application libraries, packages, and components, is to help secure these projects.

Universities in Leicestershire have launched a scheme to open their library doors to non-students for the first time. Libraries at University of Leicester, De Montfort University (DMU) and ...

Today, Snowflake kicked off its annual data cloud summit with the launch of Polaris Catalog, a new, open data catalog implementation for indexing and organizing data conforming to the Apache ...

Several Twin Cities library systems are considering an "open libraries" model that would give patrons access to books, computers and other resources by themselves at times when the library isn't ...