Cloudera Partners with Snowflake to Enable Hybrid Data Management with Iceberg Integration

Cloudera has announced a partnership with Snowflake to create a unified hybrid data lakehouse powered by Apache Iceberg. This collaboration, unveiled at EVOLVE24, integrates Cloudera’s Open Data Lakehouse with Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud, offering enterprises a single source of truth for data, analytics, and AI workloads.

The integration allows customers to easily access Cloudera’s data platform through Snowflake, enabling seamless querying and management of data across on-premise and cloud environments without the need for duplication or transfer. By leveraging this unified platform, businesses can reduce total cost of ownership, streamline operations, and improve data governance and security.

Key benefits include:
– Managed Iceberg Tables for enhanced data performance
– Best-of-breed engines for efficient data ingestion, preparation, and AI/BI workloads
– Unified security and governance across the data lifecycle

Cloudera’s Chief Strategy Officer, Abhas Ricky, highlighted that this partnership simplifies data architecture, reduces security risks, and opens new opportunities for innovation. Snowflake’s Head of Technology Alliances, Tarik Dwiek, emphasized the importance of breaking down silos to deliver a robust, hybrid data cloud experience.

The partnership aims to help enterprises drive data-driven decision-making and innovation while reducing complexity and costs. Cloudera also introduced the Cloudera Lakehouse Optimizer, a new service that autonomously optimizes Iceberg tables, enhancing performance and further reducing costs.