Delta Lake UniForm Is the Real Fix for the Snowflake-vs-Databricks Standoff
Every organization running both Snowflake and Databricks eventually hits the same argument: which platform gets to own this dataset? Not because either tool is bad — plenty of shops run both deliberately — but because whichever platform doesn't land the workload also loses first-class access to the data. Land it on Databricks, and anyone on Snowflake gets a nightly export instead of a live table. Land it on Snowflake, and anyone doing ML work has to copy Parquet into a Delta table before they can touch it in a notebook.
For a while, the standard answer to this was "open table formats will fix it eventually." I recently ran a hands-on evaluation to see whether "eventually" had actually arrived — standing up a real Delta table in Databricks with UniForm enabled, then wiring Snowflake up to read (and, on the newest builds, write) that same table as Iceberg. What follows...
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