Databricks’ Unity Catalog, now open sourced under the Apache 2.0 license, competes with Snowflake’s Polaris Catalog, which will soon be open source. Just days after rival data lakehouse provider ...

Historically, industries have transformed when they embraced open data and moved away from fragmented, proprietary systems. The results? Faster innovation, increased efficiency and greater ...

The big data community gained clarity on the future of data lakehouses earlier this week as a result of Snowflake’s open sourcing of its new Polaris metadata catalog and Databricks’ acquisition of ...

Open source is at a crossroads. For the past few years, venture capital has directly or indirectly paid for many of the contributors and much of the infrastructure it needed to keep going. That was ...

Breakthroughs in physics have reshaped everything from communications to consumer electronics. Yet these methods remain rare in medical practice, where healthcare costs continue to climb, and ...

Open-source data science platform provider Knime AG said today it has closed on a new, $30 million investment from its longtime backer Invus. The round is the first major investment the company has ...

A panel debate about openness, open data, open source, and AI development produced a veritable pile-up of enlightening ironies. One can argue that the UK government's proposal to change copyright ...

The struggle between open source and proprietary software is well understood. But the tensions permeating software circles for decades have shuffled into the artificial intelligence space, in part ...

Pension fund managers are the ultimate asset owners, responsible for the long-term financial security of millions of retirees. They face the challenge of allocating their capital to a variety of asset ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...