Keeping things neutral will be harder, say critics, as tiny startup acquired
In September last year it was a company with around 25 employees, all working remotely. Last night, Tabular was bought by analytics and machine learning platform Databricks for a reported $1 billion.on the fledgling vendor is that its founders were behind the popular data table format Apache Iceberg.
"Databricks and Tabular will work with the open source community to bring the two formats closer to each other over time, increasing openness, and reducing silos and friction for customers," he said. He said there were"concerns about Delta Lake in terms of the neutrality of the format, and the ability for other players to really invest and get the most out of it, because it is so tightly controlled by Databricks." He said Tabular wanted to"stay a neutral layer."
In its announcement about the takeover, Databricks is vague on which format would survive. It said it intended to work closely with the Delta Lake and Iceberg communities to"bring format compatibility to the lakehouse."
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