topic Re: [Feedback Requested] Data Domains, and how your organization uses them in Data Governance

[Feedback Requested] Data Domains, and how your organization uses them

PeterWang — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:08:16 GMT

Hi everyone,

As part of our plans to improve the Discover Page, one of the next items we are looking into is building out Domains.

1. How have are your organizations using Data Domains today?

2. Can you share an example of your domain (and subdomain) organization in use, or planned in your organization?

3. Do you use Domains Owners as targets for RBAC? and do you plan on using Domains for ABAC in the future?

Re: [Feedback Requested] Data Domains, and how your organization uses them

Khaja_Zaffer — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:56:01 GMT

Hello @PeterWang

Good day!!

Good to see that databricks tries to improve everyday and its always day1 at databricks.

I think Abac would be ideal if domains are used. again its upto you tho.

Re: [Feedback Requested] Data Domains, and how your organization uses them

PeterWang — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:03:10 GMT

Hi Khaja,

Can you give an example of how you would expect ABAC to work with Domains?

And do you have domains already implemented in your organization? if so, can you give an example of how you have broken down the data into domains?

Thanks for helping to make the product better!

Re: [Feedback Requested] Data Domains, and how your organization uses them

Khaja_Zaffer — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 06:30:57 GMT

Hello @PeterWang

unfortunately I dont work in any organization as of now, I was working as SE(databricks) with MSFT. (Laid off in june)

But I have seen many cases where RBAC sometimes is bottleneck.

Re: [Feedback Requested] Data Domains, and how your organization uses them

salenakerrs — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 04:32:04 GMT

Hi @PeterWang,

One of my clients in the financial services space groups their data using a domain-centric approach like customer, deposit, wealth, and credit.

We tag tables and views with these domains and use that for RBAC, so access is granted based on the domain.

Since we already rely on tags, I think moving towards ABAC in the future would make things more scalable and easier to manage in the long run.