topic Re: Automatic Data Lineage without Unity Catalog in Data Governance

Automatic Data Lineage without Unity Catalog

ty090 — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 10:37:16 GMT

Hi there,

Is there any way to have an automatic Data Lineage without the usage of Unity Catalog, instead utilizing legacy Hive?

My limited research shows there is no such option, at least without using some external tools which is not really an option for me, but I hope to be proven wrong.

Thanks for your time.

Re: Automatic Data Lineage without Unity Catalog

szymon_dybczak — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 10:52:09 GMT

Hi @ty090 ,

I don't think that's possible with Hive metastore. If you need lineage then your best option is to migrate to Unity Catalog.

Re: Automatic Data Lineage without Unity Catalog

ty090 — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 10:53:40 GMT

I thought so, thank you for your confirmation

Re: Automatic Data Lineage without Unity Catalog

sridharplv — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 19:26:36 GMT

Hi @ty090 , you need to build a lineage generation tool if you have specific requirement of not using unity catalog or beyond databricks.