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Unity Catalog is the only option here that natively blocks access to models, features and vector indexes, with no licence fee. Collibra earns its price only when one policy must land in Databricks and Snowflake.
October 25, 2026 · 11 min read
Databricks took managed Iceberg tables to GA, so the file format is no longer the lock — but external writes are still Private Preview, and the real markup is GPU serving at $5.50 an A100-hour against $2.79 at Lambda. Move the serving, keep the lakehouse.
September 4, 2026 · 19 min read
Databricks lists 47 servable models to Snowflake's ~30, but Unity Catalog keeps Delta tables read-only to outside engines and Snowflake's own catalog blocks third-party writes outright. Snowflake's exit advantage is narrower than the decks claim: it writes into a catalog you own. On a normalised 10-million-ticket workload the platforms land within 2x of each other; the model tier swings the bill 40x.
August 3, 2026 · 16 min read