Open Table Formats: From Vendor Lock-In to Data Sovereignty

Open table formats like Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake are changing how companies store analytical data and who controls it. If you store your analytical data in a proprietary format, you re locked in to the engine, the tooling, the license costs. The data belongs to the company, not the engine. Analytical systems are increasingly moving to the cloud; data warehouses, lakehouses and BI platforms…