topic Re: Databricks Free-Edition - Hive_Metastore in Databricks Free Edition Help

Databricks Free-Edition - Hive_Metastore

djfabiovarga — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:58:04 GMT

Hi,

Today I went to access the Databricks Free_Edition catalog: Legacy / Hive_Metastore and it wasn't there.

Is it no longer available in this version or have they changed it?

Thanks,
Fabio

Re: Databricks Free-Edition - Hive_Metastore

Louis_Frolio — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:23:46 GMT

Hey @djfabiovarga I just checked this on my own Free Edition workspace and, sure enough, it looks like that path has been closed off. The broader story here is that we’re steering everything toward Unity Catalog — tighter security, cleaner governance, and a whole constellation of capabilities that hive_metastore simply can’t offer.

Hope this points you in the right direction.

Louis

Re: Databricks Free-Edition - Hive_Metastore

szymon_dybczak — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:29:42 GMT

Hi @djfabiovarga ,

On databricks free edition support for hive metastore has been turned off. If you have a premium workspace you still have an ability to turn it on or off using following setting in Settings -> Security -> Disable legacy access:

Re: Databricks Free-Edition - Hive_Metastore

Raman_Unifeye — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:29:22 GMT

HMS - Certainly not a feature Databricks (and most of us) like our end-users to use especially on Free Edition 😀 esecially when the driver is to move existing clients to UC, of course, for all the advanced benefits and central governance.

Re: Databricks Free-Edition - Hive_Metastore

djfabiovarga — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:14:32 GMT

My friend, thank you very much for your collaboration. Indeed, using UC is better because of the benefits it offers.

Att. Fabio

Re: Databricks Free-Edition - Hive_Metastore

Hubert-Dudek — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:50:16 GMT

Free edition from the beginning had only UC 🙂

Re: Databricks Free-Edition - Hive_Metastore

djfabiovarga — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:03:05 GMT

My friend, thank you very much for your collaboration. Indeed, using UC is better because of the benefits it offers.

Att. Fabio

Re: Databricks Free-Edition - Hive_Metastore

djfabiovarga — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:05:32 GMT

Yes, but I wanted to run an SQL DML test for comparison.