https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-governance/can-i-use-delta-sharing-without-unity-catalog/m-p/21963#M737 <P>You could use delta sharing without unity catalog. </P><P></P><P>It is an <A href="https://github.com/delta-io/delta-sharing/blob/main/PROTOCOL.md" alt="https://github.com/delta-io/delta-sharing/blob/main/PROTOCOL.md" target="_blank">open protocol for secure real-time exchange</A> of large datasets. There repo at <A href="https://github.com/delta-io/delta-sharing" target="test_blank">https://github.com/delta-io/delta-sharing</A> also has a reference implementation of the delta sharing server which could be used to share existing tables in Delta Lake and Apache Parquet format on modern cloud storage systems.</P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P></P> Tue, 22 Jun 2021 16:21:32 GMT sajith_appukutt 2021-06-22T16:21:32Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-governance/can-i-use-delta-sharing-without-unity-catalog/m-p/21961#M735 Mon, 21 Jun 2021 21:41:24 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-governance/can-i-use-delta-sharing-without-unity-catalog/m-p/21961#M735 Anonymous 2021-06-21T21:41:24Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-governance/can-i-use-delta-sharing-without-unity-catalog/m-p/21962#M736 <P>No - UC will host the ‘Delta Sharing Server’ which is required to enable Delta Sharing. This will be available on AWS during the private preview phase of UC. The following releases will support it on other clouds.</P> Mon, 21 Jun 2021 21:45:42 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-governance/can-i-use-delta-sharing-without-unity-catalog/m-p/21962#M736 Anonymous 2021-06-21T21:45:42Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-governance/can-i-use-delta-sharing-without-unity-catalog/m-p/21963#M737 <P>You could use delta sharing without unity catalog. </P><P></P><P>It is an <A href="https://github.com/delta-io/delta-sharing/blob/main/PROTOCOL.md" alt="https://github.com/delta-io/delta-sharing/blob/main/PROTOCOL.md" target="_blank">open protocol for secure real-time exchange</A> of large datasets. There repo at <A href="https://github.com/delta-io/delta-sharing" target="test_blank">https://github.com/delta-io/delta-sharing</A> also has a reference implementation of the delta sharing server which could be used to share existing tables in Delta Lake and Apache Parquet format on modern cloud storage systems.</P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P></P> Tue, 22 Jun 2021 16:21:32 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-governance/can-i-use-delta-sharing-without-unity-catalog/m-p/21963#M737 sajith_appukutt 2021-06-22T16:21:32Z