Unity Catalog

Industry's only universal catalog for data and AI

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Tables, AI Assets, Unstructured Data
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Interoperability

Multimodal interface provides interoperability across lakehouse formats like Delta Lake, Apache IcebergTM, major cloud platforms, and various compute engines.

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Openness

Open APIs and open source server offer maximum flexibility and customer choice by ensuring broad interoperability.

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Unified Governance for data and AI

Built-in governance and security for tabular, non-tabular data as well as AI assets such as Gen AI tools

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Interoperability across any format and engine

Unity Catalog supports Delta Lake, Apache IcebergTM via UniForm, Parquet, CSV, JSON, and many other formats. It also implements the Iceberg REST Catalog APIs to interoperate with a broad ecosystem.

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Openness

Unity Catalog is Apache 2.0 licensed, including an OpenAPI specification, server and clients. Adoption of open standards maximizes flexibility and customer choice by ensuring extensive interoperability across various engines, tools, and platforms.

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Unified governance for data and AI

Unity Catalog has built-in governance and security – with strong authentication, secure credential vending, and asset-level access control to protect your data and AI assets with a unified solution. Manage unstructured data, such as images and documents, and Gen AI tools with a single, universal catalog.

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Be future-ready with a broad and open ecosystem

Unity Catalog OSS, with its Universal interface, provides broad interoperability across the modern data stack including all major cloud platforms, compute engines, data and AI platforms as well as data catalog and governance solutions.

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Endorsed by industry leaders and innovators

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"Microsoft is committed to the open-source community and empowering customers with choice. Databricks has been a strategic partner for years and it's great to see them open-sourcing Unity Catalog. We believe truly open standards with broad industry participation are in customers' best interests. Our collaboration with Databricks continues to elevate Microsoft Azure as the best choice for data and AI workloads."

Jessica Hawk
CVP Data, AI and Digital Applications, Microsoft
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"AWS welcomes Databricks' move to open source Unity Catalog. AWS is committed to working with the industry on open source solutions that enable choice and interoperability for customers."

Chris Grusz
Managing Director of Technology Partnerships, AWS
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"Google is committed to open, flexible solutions that empower customers to maximize the value of their data. Databricks' strategy to open up the Unity Catalog standard for data and AI aligns very well with our strategy."

Ritika Suri
Director, Data and AI Technology Partnerships, Google Cloud

Get started today!

View the GitHub repo or join the Unity Catalog open source community to view more information on the roadmap.