Unity Catalog

Unity Catalog

• Open source on Github
  • Maturiy: Sandbox
• feature enable

Unity Catalog provides a 3-level namespace for organizing data:

1. catalogs
2. schemas
3. tables / views

Metastores

A metastore is the top-level container for catalog in Unity Catalog. Within a metastore,

By default, the Metastore Admin is undefined (shown as System user)

• It is not related to any workspace principal/identity
• It is not managed in workspace console. It is managed in Account Console > Catalog
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