Overview
Unity Catalog centralizes metadata and governance for data and AI assets, enabling consistent policy enforcement and discovery across compute engines. It supports multi-format and multi-engine integrations and is designed to serve enterprise metadata needs.
Key features
- Multi-format and multi-engine support (Delta, Iceberg, Hudi, Spark, DuckDB, Trino).
- Unified governance, audit and access control capabilities.
- CLI, SDKs and REST APIs for integration and automation.
Use cases
- Enterprise metadata governance and cataloging for data and AI assets.
- Providing a consistent access layer across heterogeneous compute environments.
- Discovery and reproducibility for data science teams.
Technical notes
Open-source project with multi-language components focusing on interoperability and governance integration.