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UNITY CATALOG

Unified and open governance for data and AI

Eliminate silos, simplify governance and accelerate insights at scale
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BENEFITS

Govern, discover, monitor and share — all in one place

Unify your data landscape, streamline compliance and drive faster, trusted insights with open, intelligent governance across data and AI

Unified governance

Enforce consistent discovery, access, quality monitoring and compliance controls across structured and unstructured data, ML models and business metrics — in any cloud. With unified governance, you can reduce risk, simplify audits and accelerate data access without compromising control.

Open

Break free from platform lock-in. Leverage any open lakehouse formats (Delta, Apache Iceberg™, Hudi, Parquet) of your choice, connect to external data sources without migration and integrate with your existing BI, AI and catalog tools through open APIs. Whether you’re sharing data internally or with partners, make collaboration secure, scalable and open standards based.

Built-in intelligence

Go beyond data discovery and access management — empower users with business context. With built-in lineage, usage insights and business semantics, users can find, understand and explore data faster. AI-powered documentation, natural language search and conversational spaces help technical and business users get from data to decision — faster and with full business context.

FEATURES

Built-in intelligent governance

Simplify discovery, compliance and monitoring across your entire data and AI estate with intelligent governance

Unified catalog for all structured data, unstructured data, business metrics and AI models across open data formats like Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, Hudi, Parquet and more.

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Data and AI Catalog

Define dynamic data access policies based on data attributes and tags at the row and column levels. Autoclassify sensitive data (e.g., ”PII”) and enforce rules so that users see only data permitted by their attributes or roles, simplifying administration at scale.

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Fine-Grained Access Controls

End-to-end automated column-level lineage for data and AI assets to simplify impact analysis, troubleshooting, governance and AI audits.

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Automated Lineage

Discover, query and govern data across warehouses, catalogs and databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Salesforce, SAP, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse, Google BigQuery, AWS Glue, Hive Metastore and more — no data migration needed.

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Lakehouse Federation

Monitor data and AI quality at scale with anomaly detection, freshness tracking, classification and proactive alerts.

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Lakehouse Monitoring

Experience full interoperability across your ecosystem with open APIs and avoid vendor lock-in. Connect to any tool, platform or engine — your ecosystem, your choice.

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Open Source APIs

Define, govern and access business metrics in one place — ensuring consistent, trusted insights across all AI, BI and data workflows with Unity Catalog Metrics.

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Governed Business Metrics

Securely share live data and AI assets across platforms, regions and clouds — without data replication. Built on open standards to avoid vendor lock-in.

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Delta Sharing

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System Tables

Out-of-the-box system tables for deep visibility into platform operations, governance, lineage, usage, billing, budgeting and cost insights.

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Auditing

Built-in audit logs for complete visibility into data, AI and user activity — simplifying compliance and security at scale.

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AI-Powered Documentation

Autogenerate documentation, comments and tags for data, models and metrics to accelerate discovery and build trust.

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Predictive Optimization

AI-driven table optimizations based on your data and usage patterns that keep your tables tuned, automatically.

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Liquid Clustering

Out-of-the-box, self-tuning data layout that scales with your data — no partitions required.

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Databricks Clean Rooms

Secure, privacy-first collaboration on sensitive data and AI assets — across teams, regions and even external partners.

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Databricks Marketplace

Build and package data products — including datasets, AI models and notebooks — once and distribute them anywhere through an open marketplace.

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USE CASES

Unlock the full business value of data with unified governance

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