Unity Catalog will allow you to bring your own HMS

[User16826994223]

Anyone know more about how the Unity Catalog will allow you to bring your own HMS (eg Glue)?

Will this be treated as a separate 'catalog', which you can access but you can't use the other features of Unity Catalog on eg ABAC etc

Any reading on this topic?

[zpappa]

@Kunal Gaurav​ yes, it is treated as a synthetic catalog. You can query it by using the convention "hive_metastore" as the catalog name. i.e. SELECT * FROM hive_metastore.schema_name.table_name

This will work for internal HMS, external HMS and Glue.

You cannot set any Unity ACLs on these HMS/Glue objects currently.

You can use the Upgrade Wizard in the DBSQL Explorer to upgrade HMS/Glue schemas and tables to Unity Catalog.