Dec 20, 2024 · This article introduces Unity Catalog, a unified governance solution for data and AI assets on Azure Databricks. Unity Catalog is also available as an open-source implementation. See the announcement blog and the public Unity Catalog GitHub repo.

Unity Catalog transforms how you manage and govern data, ensuring compatibility and control across diverse platforms and tools.

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 ...

Jan 13, 2025 · 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.

Aug 29, 2024 · Track data lineage using Unity Catalog. You can use Unity Catalog to capture runtime data lineage across queries in any language executed on an Azure Databricks cluster or SQL warehouse. Lineage is captured down to the column level, and includes notebooks, jobs, and dashboards related to the query. To learn more, see Capture and view data ...

Apr 20, 2022 · Unity Catalog offers a unified data access layer that provides Databricks users with a simple and streamlined way to define and connect to your data through managed tables, external tables or files, as well as to manage access controls over them.

Nov 19, 2024 · Learn how Unity Catalog in Databricks revolutionizes data governance with centralized management, improved security, and scalable permissions across workspaces.

Catalogs are the first layer in Unity Catalog’s three-level namespace (catalog.schema.table-etc). They contain schemas, which in turn can contain tables, views, volumes, models, and functions. Catalogs are registered in a Unity Catalog metastore in your Databricks account.

Unity Catalog is the industry’s only universal catalog for data and AI. Multimodal interface supports any format, engine, and asset. Multi-format support: It is extensible and supports Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg and Apache Hudi via UniForm, Apache …

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