Requirements for Managed Iceberg tables with Unity Catalog

zent — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:33:19 GMT

Does Databricks support creating native Apache iceberg tables(managed) in unity catalog or is it possible only with private preview, so what are the requirements?

Re: Requirements for Managed Iceberg tables with Unity Catalog

Advika — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:47:38 GMT

Hello @zent!

Databricks now fully supports creating Apache Iceberg managed tables in Unity Catalog, and this capability is available in Public Preview (not just private preview).
These managed Iceberg tables can be read and written by Databricks and external Iceberg clients using Unity Catalog’s Iceberg REST Catalog APIs.

Requirements:

Unity Catalog enabled
Databricks Runtime 16.4 LTS or above
Required table creation permissions

For more details, you can refer to the official resources:

Announcing full Apache Iceberg support in Databricks
Access Databricks tables from Apache Iceberg clients

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