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Part 2 of 2. Part 1 covered my data2day talk and what changes when access control starts asking the data catalog. This one is about what happened after the talk. The short version In my data2day demo, access control reads
Based on my talk at data2day 2026 in Cologne: why data catalogs mostly sit on the sidelines, and what happens when access control starts asking them for information. Part 1 of 2. Part 2 covers what happened after the talk:
When a vendor is acquired, the software doesn’t change on the day the deal closes – and SAP’s purchase of Dremio, completed in July 2026, is no different. What changes is slower and further-reaching: who sets the roadmap, and how
This started as a talk at the Iceberg Meetup in Münster (6 October 2026) and here’s the written version for everyone else who is interested in the topic.I’ll be honest: I rarely use Apache Iceberg myself. Our Stackable customers do
If you have looked for a way to run Databricks in your own data center, you have probably hit the same wall everyone does: there isn’t one. Databricks is a cloud-only platform – it runs on AWS, Azure, and Google
If you have already decided to move off Cloudera towards a modernised open-source data platform, the interesting question is no longer ‘why’ but ‘how’: what to move, in what order, and how to keep what breaks small, planned, and reversible.
