Hi Steve,Again, it is not entirely accurate.1. Databricks Snowflake Warehouses for Non-Iceberg Tables however for Iceberg Tables, it will use Snowflake Compute in the Global Services (GS) layer to run SQL metadata queries (SHOW TABLE, SHOW COLUMNS DE...
Steve's answer is incorrect about Databricks using Iceberg Rest APIs. Catalog Federation is simply a workaround & marketing term for NOT supporting Databricks UNITY from accessing Iceberg Rest Catalog APIs to read or write from external IRC Catalogs....
Steve, your answer incorrect. Databricks does NOT use Horizon/Polaris or any other IRC rest APIs to talk to any external system. Access to any external Iceberg Catalog like Glue, Google. Horizon, Polaris & etc. is blocked by UNITY either to read or ...
