What Is Apache Polaris? Why Open Data Catalogs Matter and How to Use Them with AWS

Original Japanese article : Apache Polarisとは何か？オープンなデータカタログが求められる理由とAWSとの組み合わせ方を整理する Introduction I'm Aki, an AWS Community Builder ( @jitepengin ). In recent years, lakehouse architectures centered around Apache Iceberg have been rapidly expanding. By placing Iceberg tables on object storage such as S3, it has become possible to query the same data from multiple engines such as Athena, Snowflake, Spark, Trino, and Dremio. As a result, the discussion has shifted from “Where should data be placed