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 ...

Databricks introduced Unity Catalog in 2021 to meet customer demand: ... as well as weak governance and fragmented access control. Unity Catalog breaks down those silos for over 10,000 organizations.

BOSTON, June 29, 2022 — Immuta, a leader in data access and data security, announced that it has strengthened its partnership with Databricks by integrating its market-leading policy enforcement ...

Second, Unity Catalog's pioneering Lakehouse Federation capabilities enable seamless access to Iceberg tables managed in external catalogs, so those tables can be discovered and governed alongside ...

However, unlike Unity Catalog, which has been immediately open-sourced (Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia published the code live on stage), Snowflake’s Polaris Catalog is set to be open-sourced over ...

Unity Catalog removes data management complexities for organizations by centralizing files, tables, machine learning models, and dashboards in one location within the Databricks Lakehouse Platform.

Databricks also announced updates to its Unity Catalog that expand support for Apache Iceberg — the open-source table format designed for large analytical datasets in data lakes — and introduce new ...

Built on open standards, Unity Catalog is designed to work across every table format and engine. Databricks is now taking that vision further with the Public Preview of full Apache Iceberg support ...