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by imslowbutnice 1681 days ago
Yes Photon is completely proprietary. Databricks does have a "delta" version, but it is actually completely baked into the databricks runtime. So we are both correct. Ali (Databricks CEO) actually has gone on record to say Databricks is 90% proprietary code. There is an open source version, but it is not as good. The culture within Databricks though, is completely open source. Unlike Snowflake, the culture is definitely not open source. I think it affects the culture too.