Jul 2, 2025

SHARE A survey of enterprise customers conducted by SiliconANGLE and theCUBE Research last year found that there was clear momentum toward adoption of open-table formats such as Apache Iceberg . The experience of technology platform company Komodo Health Inc. provides further evidence that the shift toward open-table formats, which enable any compute engine to operate on any data, continues to gather steam. Laurent Bride, CTO at Komodo Health, and Russell Spitzer, principal engineer at Snowflake, talk with theCUBE about open-table formats. A sold-out, first-time gathering of the Iceberg community in April demonstrated the format’s growing popularity, according to Laurent Bride (pictured, left), chief technology officer of Komodo Health. “You can’t imagine having a sold-out conference for a table format,” Bride said. “It’s amazing the amount of momentum that’s coming. It’s because every engine has kind of jumped onboard and said Iceberg is the important thing to do. All the major vendors are on board. If you do Iceberg, it works everywhere, so that’s the future.” Bride spoke with theCUBE’s Rebecca Knight and Dave Vellante at Snowflake Summit , during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. He was joined by Russell Spitzer (right), principal software engineer at Snowflake Inc. and Apache Polaris (Incubating) PPMC, and they discussed Snowflake’s integration with Iceberg and Komodo’s use of AI to enable healthcare analytics. (* Disclosure below.) Open-table formats accelerate data sharing Iceberg’s growing popularity was further validated in April by the announcement from Snowflake that it would bring its core capabilities to Iceberg tables. The move allowed Snowflake customers to accelerate lakehouse analytics, security and governance applications, and data sharing, according to Spitzer. “Snowflake believes in Iceberg and is making sure that things go all the way through into the spec,” Spitzer said. “What are your favorite things in Snowflake that you think everyone should have access to? That’s what’s going to come next.” Open-table formats and Snowflake’s capabilities have also allowed Komodo Health to expand its MapLab platform. The company launched MapAI and MapExplorer last fall to enable trustworthy and contextualized insights and analyses for its healthcare clients, according to Bride. “In the commercial world of life science, you just launched a drug, and you want to know how well that drug is doing on the market, and you’re going to do that through evaluating prescriptions,” Bride explained. “Should you move to another stage? Should you change your marketing campaign? All of those use cases we can address with the healthcare map, and the AI part made that so much simpler.” Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Snowflake Summit : (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Snowflake Summit. Neither Snowflake Inc., the primary sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.) Photo: SiliconANGLE