Databao Becomes a Partner of the Open Semantic Interchange Initiative led by Snowflake and other industry leaders

Modern data teams need flexibility and scalability as workflows evolve and AI becomes central to analytics. They are increasingly relying on AI to enable self-service analytics and accelerate data workflows, and it has become essential to establish shared business logic and context that both humans and AI systems can reliably understand and use. That shared context is the semantic layer.

That’s why we are thrilled to announce that Databao, a recent JetBrains product bringing semantic context and local data agents to data teams, is joining the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI), the open-source initiative led by Snowflake and other industry leaders to advance interoperable and governed semantic models.

Why open semantics matter

The Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) is an open-source initiative led by Snowflake and a broad ecosystem of partners across multiple domains and industries including BI, data engineering, governance, and AI. Its goal is to define a shared, vendor-neutral standard for semantic metadata, enabling it to move seamlessly across tools and platforms.

By making semantic context portable and interoperable, OSI reduces complexity, accelerates the adoption of AI and analytics tools, and helps organizations align on consistent data definitions, laying the foundation for more reliable insights and scalable AI innovation.

What Databao brings to data teams

OSI reflects the principles that have guided Databao from the start.

First, trust at scale depends on semantics. Databao treats the semantic layer as living context, shared, governed, and continuously refined, so business logic remains clear and reliable as data usage grows.

Second, adoption requires flexibility. Teams shouldn’t have to choose between strong governance and usability. Databao already works with existing tools and logic. Teams stay in control of where their source of truth lives and how it’s maintained.

By joining OSI, Databao reinforces its commitment to an open, community-driven approach to sharing semantic models, so business definitions remain consistent and usable across every team’s workflows.

About Databao

Databao is a new data product from JetBrains that helps data teams create and maintain a shared semantic context and build their own data agents on top of it. Our goal is to provide an AI-native analytics experience that business users can trust, enabling them to query and analyze data in plain language.

Databao’s modular components, the context engine and data agent can run independently, either locally or within your existing infrastructure using your own API keys.

We are also inviting data teams to build a proof of concept with us: we’ll explore your use case, define a context-building process, and grant agent access to a selected group of business users. Together, we will then evaluate the quality of responses and the overall value.

TALK TO THE TEAM

Learn more about the Open Semantic Interchange on Snowflake’s blog, or explore both modules at databao.app .