topic Re: Will Unity catalog come to Europe? in Data Governance

Will Unity catalog come to Europe?

Erik — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 18:46:03 GMT

It is our understanding that enabling unity catalog means that some metadata (for example usernames) will be sent to the USA for processing/storage. This is unfortunately a deal-breaker for us, and we need the data to reside solely in Europe for compliance reasons. Is there any plans for Unity-catalog-in-Europe?

Re: Will Unity catalog come to Europe?

Sivaprasad1 — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 13:47:21 GMT

@Erik Parmann : There is no definitive timeline Europe region for now.

Re: Will Unity catalog come to Europe?

Erik — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 07:07:42 GMT

Thanks for the reply @Sivaprasad C S ! Is it possible to get a bit more information? Like, is it even planned to have unity in Europe at *some* point in time, or is it set up to always be US-only?

Re: Will Unity catalog come to Europe?

youssefmrini — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 07:51:49 GMT

Usernames have always been stored centrally in the US. That's similar to most global services for the IAM Layer. The only thing additional that gets stored in the US as part of UC is the metastore names. you can check this link ( https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/global-infrastructure/data-residency/)

Azure Databricks which stores identity data and certain tables names and object path information in the US.

Identity Data -> user & group names

Table names -> UC metastore names

Object path information -> Workspace ids

Re: Will Unity catalog come to Europe?

Danny_V — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:54:07 GMT

Is it still the case in 2026 with the announcement of the Automatic Identity Management ?

Automatic Identity Management for Entra ID is now Generally Available in Azure Databricks | Databricks Blog

Regards

Re: Will Unity catalog come to Europe?

Kirankumarbs — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:12:15 GMT

This blog talks about avoiding SCIM sync, but not data residency! Hence, metastore, user names are still stored at US Central!

Actually, this is unfortunate for us too! We are also looking for 100% data rescidency at Europe!!!