Unity Catalog
Interoperability
Multimodal interface provides interoperability across lakehouse formats like Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg™, major cloud platforms, and various compute engines.
Openness
Open APIs and open source server offer maximum flexibility and customer choice by ensuring broad interoperability.
Unified Governance for data and AI
Built-in governance and security for tabular, non-tabular data as well as AI assets such as Gen AI tools
Interoperability across any format and engine
Unity Catalog supports Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg™ via UniForm, Parquet, CSV, JSON, and many other formats. It also implements the Iceberg REST Catalog APIs to interoperate with a broad ecosystem.
Openness
Unity Catalog is Apache 2.0 licensed, including an OpenAPI specification, server and clients. Adoption of open standards maximizes flexibility and customer choice by ensuring extensive interoperability across various engines, tools, and platforms.
Unified governance for data and AI
Unity Catalog has built-in governance and security – with strong authentication, secure credential vending, and asset-level access control to protect your data and AI assets with a unified solution. Manage unstructured data, such as images and documents, and Gen AI tools with a single, universal catalog.
Be future-ready with a broad
and open ecosystem
Unity Catalog OSS, with its Universal interface, provides broad interoperability across the modern data stack including all major cloud platforms, compute engines, data and AI platforms as well as data catalog and governance solutions.