Unity Catalog

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. Unity Catalog supports Delta Lake, Apache IcebergTM via UniForm, Parquet, CSV, JSON, and many other formats. It also implements the Iceberg REST Catalog APIs to interoperate with a broad ecosystem. 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. 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.