Databricks Free-Edition - Hive_Metastore

[djfabiovarga]

Hi,

Today I went to access the Databricks Free_Edition catalog: Legacy / Hive_Metastore and it wasn't there.

Is it no longer available in this version or have they changed it?

Thanks,
Fabio

[Louis_Frolio · Accepted solution]

Hey @djfabiovarga  I just checked this on my own Free Edition workspace and, sure enough, it looks like that path has been closed off. The broader story here is that we’re steering everything toward Unity Catalog — tighter security, cleaner governance, and a whole constellation of capabilities that hive_metastore simply can’t offer.

Hope this points you in the right direction.

Louis

[djfabiovarga]

My friend, thank you very much for your collaboration. Indeed, using UC is better because of the benefits it offers.

Att. Fabio

[szymon_dybczak · Accepted solution]

Hi @djfabiovarga ,

On databricks free edition support for hive metastore has been turned off. If you have a premium workspace you still have an ability to turn it on or off using following setting in Settings -> Security -> Disable legacy access:

[djfabiovarga]

My friend, thank you very much for your collaboration. Indeed, using UC is better because of the benefits it offers.

Att. Fabio

[Raman_Unifeye · Accepted solution]

HMS - Certainly not a feature Databricks (and most of us) like our end-users to use especially on Free Edition 😀 esecially when the driver is to move existing clients to UC, of course, for all the advanced benefits and central governance. 

[Hubert-Dudek]

Free edition from the beginning had only UC 🙂

[djfabiovarga]

Yes, but I wanted to run an SQL DML test for comparison.