Snowflake Open Catalog

Snowflake Open Catalog is the current Snowflake name, previously Polaris Catalog (since October 2024).

Polaris Catalog → Snowflake Open Catalog

Snowflake's managed catalog service for Apache Iceberg tables, built on the open source Apache Iceberg REST protocol so any engine can read the same tables.

• It is a managed service for Apache Polaris, the open source catalog project Snowflake wrote and then handed to the Apache Software Foundation. 🔗
• The release note announcing its general availability had to explain what it used to be called, in the very same sentence. 🔗

Category

Data governance

In use from

October 2024🔗

Also known as

Open Catalog

Verified

2026-09-12