Polaris Catalog

Polaris Catalog was renamed - Snowflake now calls it Snowflake Open Catalog, as of October 2024.

Polaris Catalog → Snowflake Open Catalog

Snowflake's open source catalog implementation for Apache Iceberg tables, announced to give any engine a vendor-neutral place to register and read Iceberg tables.

• Snowflake promised to open source it within 90 days of announcing it, before the hosted version had even reached public preview. 🔗

Category

Data governance

In use from

June 2024🔗

Renamed

October 2024🔗

Announced at

Snowflake Summit 2024🔗

Verified

2026-09-12