# Polaris catalog on Dremio community edition

**URL:** <https://community.dremio.com/t/polaris-catalog-on-dremio-community-edition/12748>\
**Category:** Apache Iceberg\
**Created:** [February 5, 2025, 5:41am UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/polaris-catalog-on-dremio-community-edition/12748 "2025-02-05T05:41:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![vadlamania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/59ef9b/32.png) [@vadlamania](https://community.dremio.com/u/vadlamania)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 5:41am UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/polaris-catalog-on-dremio-community-edition/12748/1 "2025-02-05T05:41:38Z")

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I see that polaris catalog is not supported on Dremio community edition. I even tried using the property “plugins.restcatalog.enabled: true” inside dremio.conf, but this also didn’t help. Is there any other way we can connect to polaris catalog from the community edition?

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**Author:** ![dotjdk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@dotjdk](https://community.dremio.com/u/dotjdk)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2025, 3:48am UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/polaris-catalog-on-dremio-community-edition/12748/2 "2025-02-20T03:48:28Z")

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Polaris is a REST catalog. When you enable `plugins.restcatalog.enabled`, you will get the option to add a “REST Iceberg Catalog” when adding a source.

I haven’t tried with Polaris specifically, but it has worked for me with two other catalog implementations

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**Author:** ![rsrs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@rsrs](https://community.dremio.com/u/rsrs)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/polaris-catalog-on-dremio-community-edition/12748/3 "2025-12-03T16:02:21Z")

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Hello all, Any new updates insights on this topic (APache Polaris integration using Dremio OSS on docker for a sandbox environment?  
Dremio team, Is Apache catalog support in community edition part of roadmap or is it part of the managed version only?

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**Author:** ![quangbilly79](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.dremio.com/quangbilly79/32/6549_2.png) [@quangbilly79](https://community.dremio.com/u/quangbilly79)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 3:55am UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/polaris-catalog-on-dremio-community-edition/12748/4 "2025-12-04T03:55:16Z")

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They are slowly moving free core features (available in Dremio Software edition) into paid ones. They’ve become greedy, and it’s not a good sign.

They are forgetting what made Dremio popular in the first place: it’s the open-source feature. 90% of people choose Dremio because it’s free and open-source. And I’m sure that people into paid/enterprise features won’t choose Dremio since there are many better choices in the paid market.