- What is Unity Catalog?
- Centralized security and governance service for your Lakehouse
- Unity Catalog allows admins and data stewards manage users and access to data centrally across all of the workspace in an Azure Databricks account
- Users in different workspace can share access to the same data
- Offers a single place to administer data access policies that apply across all workspaces
- Automatically captures user-level audit logs recording access to the data
- Unity Catalog Object Model
- Metastore: the top-level container for metadata by exposing a three-level namespace (catalog.schema.table)
- Catalog: first layer of object hierarchy to organize data assets
- Schema: database. Second layer of object to contain tables and views
- Table: the lowest level in the object hierarchy. Includes: storage credentials and external table, managed table or views
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/data-governance/unity-catalog/
Unity Catalog API 2.1 Specification
https://api-docs.databricks.com/rest/latest/unity-catalog-api-specification-2-1.html
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