back to article Snowflake claims Iceberg wins table format wars, and Databricks has just proved it

Databricks' $1 billion plus purchase of Tabular demonstrates Iceberg has won the data table format wars, according to rival data analytics and ML vendor Snowflake. Amid confirming Q2 results of fiscal 2025 ended July 31, Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy said: “This is the end of the Betamax wars… with everybody centering around …

  1. Pascal Monett Silver badge
    Stop

    “There's not really been any noticeable effect"

    That is not entirely true.

  2. Alistair Wall

    Betamax was reputed to be the better format.

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