Dremio was founded about a decade ago for the purpose of accelerating the speed of business analytics, first as a federated engine and then evolving into one of the few Iceberg-native data lake engines. “The founders built Arrow, a tool for in-memory analytics, made it open source, and donated it to Apache,” said Rahim Bhojani, CTO of Dremio. “Apache Arrow is now foun- dational to modern analytics platforms. From the get-go, we knew our customers wanted to access and analyze data simul- taneously from multiple databases, so we developed methods of federating and virtualizing the data. With the use of an open table format like Iceberg, there is no need to copy and store the data in a proprietary format; we just fetch the metadata, and the data remains in place. This reduces costs, increases performance, and improves reliability.”