Apache Polaris Blog
Build a Local Open Data Lakehouse with k3d, Apache Ozone, Apache Polaris and Trino
Saturday, April 04, 2026 in Blog
TL;DR — Spin up a fully integrated, locally-running open data lakehouse on your laptop in under 30 minutes using Kubernetes in Docker (k3d), Apache Ozone as S3-compatible object storage, Apache Polaris as the Iceberg REST catalog and Trino as the …
Introducing the setup Command in Apache Polaris
Sunday, March 29, 2026 in Blog
Introduction🔗 As data platforms grow, managing Apache Polaris entities—such as catalogs, principals, and their associated roles—quickly becomes a complex orchestration problem. Traditionally, setting up a new Apache Polaris environment meant …
Apache Polaris Graduates to Top Level Project!
Thursday, February 19, 2026 in Blog
We are thrilled to announce that Apache Polaris has officially graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top Level Project (TLP) at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). This milestone marks a significant pivotal point for the project, moving …
Floe and Apache Polaris: Policy-Driven Table Maintenance for Apache Iceberg
Wednesday, February 04, 2026 in Blog
Introduction🔗 Iceberg tables accumulate technical debt over time. Small files multiply as streaming jobs append data in micro-batches. Delete files pile up from CDC workloads. Snapshots grow unbounded, bloating metadata. Without regular maintenance, …
Mapping Legacy and Heterogeneous Datalakes in Apache Polaris
Monday, January 12, 2026 in Blog
Introduction🔗 The data lake community and major engines such as Spark, Snowflake, and Trino are standardizing on the Iceberg REST catalog protocol for data discovery and access. While this shift provides the foundation for a modern lakehouse with …
Apache Polaris and Lance: Bringing AI-Native Storage to the Open Multimodal Lakehouse
Tuesday, January 06, 2026 in Blog
Introduction🔗 We are excited to announce the integration between Apache Polaris and the Lance ecosystem, enabling users to manage Lance tables through the Apache Polaris Generic Table API. This integration brings AI-native columnar storage to the …
Securing S3 data with AWS KMS
Wednesday, December 24, 2025 in Blog
Introduction🔗 AWS Key Management Service (KMS) provides a way to encrypt S3 data in AWS without exposing raw key material outside AWS services. Apache Polaris supports using KMS in its catalogs backed by AWS S3 storage. This functionality will be …
StarRocks and Apache Polaris Integration: Building a Unified, High-Performance Data Lakehouse
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 in Blog
Introduction: Why StarRocks + Apache Polaris?🔗 Modern Data-Architecture Pain Points: Silos & Engine Lock-in🔗 Today’s data-driven enterprises face two chronic ailments: Data silos : transactional data sits in RDBMS, click-streams in an S3 data …
Integrating Apache Polaris with PuppyGraph for Real-time Graph Analysis
Thursday, October 02, 2025 in Blog
Unified data governance has become a hot topic over the last few years. As AI and other data-hungry use cases infiltrate the market, the need for a comprehensive data catalog solution with governance in mind has become critical. Apache Polaris has …
Apache Polaris 1.1.0-incubating has been released!
Friday, September 19, 2025 in Blog
The Apache Polaris team is pleased to announce Apache Polaris 1.1.0-incubating. This release includes: New features & enhancements ** HMS support ** IMPLICIT authentication type ** Support for non-AWS S3 compatible storage with STS: MinIO, s3a …