Databricks Unity Catalog is the industry’s only unified and open governance solution for data and AI, built into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. With Unity Catalog, organizations can seamlessly govern both structured and unstructured data in any format, as well as machine learning models, notebooks, dashboards and files across any ...

Mar 31, 2025 · Databricks uses Unity Catalog to manage query federation. Use Unity Catalog to configure read-only connections to popular external database systems and create foreign catalogs that mirror external databases.

Learn how Unity Catalog offers unified governance for all data and AI assets, tracking data lineage in SQL, R, Python, and Scala.

Jun 13, 2024 · Databricks announces the open-sourcing of Unity Catalog, offering a unified data governance solution for managing and securing data assets at scale.

For key Unity Catalog concepts and an introduction to how Unity Catalog works, see What is Unity Catalog?. To learn how best to use Unity Catalog to meet your data governance needs, see Unity Catalog best practices.

Unity Catalog creates a common data governance model and simplifies governance for your data and ML models on any cloud. With Unity Catalog, you can define access policies once at the account level and enforce them across all workloads and workspaces.

Apr 3, 2024 · Databricks Unity Catalog provides one unified governance architecture for all of your assets, providing holistic views across all structured / semi-structured / unstructured / streaming data, along with all AI models, workplaces, notebooks, and files, tables, and dashboards.

Databricks Unity Catalog is a unified governance solution for all data and AI assets including files, tables, and machine learning models in your lakehouse on any cloud.

Aug 29, 2024 · Unity Catalog is a fine-grained governance solution for data and AI on the Databricks platform. It helps simplify security and governance of your data and AI assets by providing a central place to administer and audit access to data and AI assets.

Feb 14, 2025 · Learn best practices for setting up data governance and data isolation in Databricks using Unity Catalog and Delta Sharing.