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. The core functionality is …
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 …
Doris X Polaris: Building Unified Data Lakehouse with Iceberg REST Catalog - A Practical Guide
Monday, September 15, 2025 in Blog
With the continuous evolution of data lake technologies, efficiently and securely managing massive datasets stored on object storage (such as AWS S3) while providing unified access endpoints for upstream analytics engines (like Apache Doris) has …
Apache Polaris 1.0.1-incubating has been released!
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 in Blog
The Apache Polaris team is pleased to announce Apache Polaris 1.0.1-incubating. This release is a maintenance release on the 1.0.1-incubating one, fixing a couple of issues on the Helm Chart: remove db-kind in Helm Chart add relational-jdbc to Helm …