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Unity Catalog(UC)managed tablescombine stronggovernancewith seamlessinteroperabilityacross tools. Since the data sits in the customer-owned cloud storage, organizations retain full control over its physical location, while benefiting from Databricks’ built-inintelligenceand automation.
Today, UC managed tables are the most commonly used table type in Databricks; two out of every three UC tables are managed. This adoption reflects its ability to simplify operations, reduce costs, and improve performance at scale.
With UC managed tables, organizations can be confident they are always using the latest table features. These tables are automatically upgraded, and unlike other table types, they understand usage patterns, allowing new capabilities to be enabled safely and incrementally, without manual intervention.
Image shows the AI-powered data optimization lifecycle. The model learns from table data and query patterns, predicts the best optimizations, runs them automatically, and observes changes to table data and query patterns in a feedback loop.
The structure of UC managed tables also enablesadvanced AI capabilities that weren’t possible before. Since all reads and writes route through Unity Catalog, Databricks canintelligently optimize databased on actual usage, improving query performance, reducing storage costs, and eliminating routine maintenance.
Key benefits include:
Automatic upgrades with the latest features
Self-maintenance with compaction, clustering, and vacuuming
Storage and compute cost savings through intelligent optimization
Secure access via Open APIs, even for non-Databricks clients
Faster queries across all clients, not just in Databricks
