Concentrate on flexibility and interoperability
The assist for Iceberg, in addition to a database catalog that unifies information discovery and simplifies metadata administration throughout clouds, information lakes, databases, shares, and catalogs, marks a change in Oracle’s technique: from a single cloud mannequin to recognizing enterprises’ want for flexibility throughout clouds and platforms, based on Moor Technique and Insights principal analyst Robert Kramer.
“Oracle has shifted to open, vendor-neutral interoperability, aligning extra carefully with Microsoft Material and Google BigLake. Options reminiscent of Iceberg assist and plug-and-play SQL integration with catalogs like Databricks Unity, AWS Glue, and Snowflake Polaris make it straightforward to assist multi-cloud and hybrid setups throughout OCI, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Exadata Cloud@Buyer,” Kramer mentioned.
Analysts additionally identified that Oracle’s new deal with interoperability will profit its current clients, particularly those that want to undertake “open-table” lakehouse analytics with out abandoning Autonomous Database or Exadata.
