At its Data + AI Summit today, Databricks announced that it’s open sourcing Unity Catalog, the metadata catalog that governs how users and compute engines can access data. Coming off of last week’s ...

Today, Databricks kicked off its annual Data and AI summit with a long-awaited move: the open sourcing of its three-year-old Unity Catalog platform that provides customers a unified solution for ...

Databricks’ Unity Catalog, now open sourced under the Apache 2.0 license, competes with Snowflake’s Polaris Catalog, which will soon be open source. Topics Spotlight: AI-ready data centers ...

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 15, 2022 — data.world, the enterprise data catalog for the modern data stack, today announced it has partnered with Databricks, the lakehouse company, to offer greater visibility ...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, at the Data + AI Summit, Databricks announced two new innovations that enhance its lakehouse pl ...

At its Data + AI Summit, Databricks rolls out its new Delta Sharing, Delta Live Tables and Unity Catalog initiatives. For now, only Delta Sharing is open source, as the company looks to fill out ...

1. Unity Catalog could give Databricks a competitive advantage against Snowflake. Unlike Snowflake, which ensures all data stays inside its platform, Databricks has never owned the data and is now ...

Migrating to Unity Catalog (UC) is becoming a popular decision for many enterprises seeking to enhance data governance, improve security, and boost their overall data management capabilities. Guidance ...

And to do that with security, with governance, they need a modern [data] catalog, such as the Databricks Unity Catalog. It's a very interesting use case for AI in general,” Avancini said.

Databricks believes this new offering will enable every employee to gain insights from internal data, not just the data scientists. It uses Unity Catalog for governance to ensure that employees ...