topic Can other systems/compute engines connect to the Unity Catalog? in Data Governance https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-governance/can-other-systems-compute-engines-connect-to-the-unity-catalog/m-p/21950#M731 Mon, 21 Jun 2021 21:42:11 GMT Anonymous 2021-06-21T21:42:11Z Can other systems/compute engines connect to the Unity Catalog? https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-governance/can-other-systems-compute-engines-connect-to-the-unity-catalog/m-p/21950#M731 Mon, 21 Jun 2021 21:42:11 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-governance/can-other-systems-compute-engines-connect-to-the-unity-catalog/m-p/21950#M731 Anonymous 2021-06-21T21:42:11Z Re: Can other systems/compute engines connect to the Unity Catalog? https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-governance/can-other-systems-compute-engines-connect-to-the-unity-catalog/m-p/21951#M732 <P>Yes, UC will have a suite of REST APIs allowing external tools to query it.</P><P>UC Data Dictionary tables will be available via SQL as well. It is possible to query the UC Data Dictionary via JDBC/ODBC connection, but this requires a running endpoint or cluster.</P> Mon, 21 Jun 2021 21:44:28 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-governance/can-other-systems-compute-engines-connect-to-the-unity-catalog/m-p/21951#M732 Anonymous 2021-06-21T21:44:28Z