Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy isn’t impressed that archrival Databricks, which is privately held, is raising a new funding round from existing investors at a valuation of more than $100 billion. In ...

Databricks plans to use the funds for product development and acquisitions, reflecting a growing trend in AI investment.

The two companies’ data science platforms have become core components for many CIOs who are focused on leveraging organizational data to drive AI deployments, as the market for similar tools rapidly ...

For all the talk about the rise of low-cost or open-source AI models, enterprises are still gravitating to brand-name models ...

In response, Snowflake this month open-sourced its Polaris technical metadata catalog. Databricks then acquired Tabular (founded by the creators of Iceberg) and subsequently open-sourced Unity.

Snowflake's share price remains under pressure due to its ongoing growth deceleration and rising competition. In particular, Databricks is growing rapidly and trying to drive adoption of the data ...

To address this need, Databricks and Snowflake have emerged as the best one-stop shops for this. They are locked in a duel, espousing different approaches, and having different cultures.

Databricks announced today that it's making its key technology, Delta Lake, fully open source. Earlier this month, Snowflake said it would rely on a competing open-source technology.

Databricks, a rival to Snowflake in cloud data, is nearing a $100 billion valuation after a new funding round, a significant ...

Databricks and Snowflake also differ on open source. This can be a subjective concept, which we’ve documented here, here, here, here, and here, and we’re not about to revisit the debate again.