If you're catching up on Data + AI Summit 2026, here’s a simple Unity Catalog recap for data governance. Three themes stand out: Control, Context, and Choice. Control: Keep governance consistent as AI moves from access to action. AI governance at Dat...
Yes I believe that is in pipeline
You could use delta sharing without unity catalog. It is an open protocol for secure real-time exchange of large datasets. There repo at https://github.com/delta-io/delta-sharing also has a reference implementation of the delta sharing server which c...
Yes, you'll have an option to use the existing metastore, an external metastore, and Unity at the same time.
Unity Catalog is planned to support multi-cloud architectures from one catalog instance.
Yes, UC will have a suite of REST APIs allowing external tools to query it.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 c...
Yes, this is the vision. The first phase of Unity Catalog is focused on the operational aspects of accessing data i.e. data access controls (Table ACL model, data sharing etc) and auditing. Lineage will be introduced in future phases.
Initially UC will support Delta and Parquet formats only. We plan to support more formats with time
The delta sharing protocol is a mechanism to share live data in your Delta Lake without copying it to another system.Currently it supports delta as the source format. For more details on the advantages of using delta as a table format for data lakes ...
