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Unity Catalog Databricks

Unity Catalog is Databricks' governance solution that streamlines access control, audit logging, data discovery, and lineage tracking across various cloud platforms. It features a hierarchical organization of assets and supports both centralized and distributed governance models, allowing for fine-grained permissions. Additionally, it provides automatic lineage tracking and auditing capabilities essential for compliance and operational visibility.

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Unity Catalog Databricks

Unity Catalog is Databricks' governance solution that streamlines access control, audit logging, data discovery, and lineage tracking across various cloud platforms. It features a hierarchical organization of assets and supports both centralized and distributed governance models, allowing for fine-grained permissions. Additionally, it provides automatic lineage tracking and auditing capabilities essential for compliance and operational visibility.

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Unity Catalog in Databricks - Detailed Guide

Introduction

Unity Catalog is Databricks' unified governance solution that simplifies access control, audit logging, data discovery, and

lineage tracking across multiple workspaces and cloud platforms. It provides a consistent security and governance

model at scale for data and AI assets.

Object Model & Hierarchy

Unity Catalog organizes assets in the following hierarchy:

- Metastore: The top-level container for metadata and access policies.

- Catalog: Groups schemas; represents business units or environments.

- Schema (Database): Contains tables, views, volumes, functions, models.

- Objects: Data tables (managed/external), views, ML models, volumes (non-tabular), functions.

This structure allows fine-grained permissions at every level.

Governance Models

Unity Catalog supports both centralized and distributed governance models:

- Centralized: Admins control all access and configurations.

- Distributed: Catalog-level ownership by domain teams ensures domain-based security and flexibility.

Best Practice: Assign admin roles to user groups for scalable governance.

Data Access Control

Access policies are defined using ANSI SQL GRANT and REVOKE statements at the catalog, schema, table, and view

level.

You can bind specific catalogs to workspaces for environment isolation (e.g., development, production).

Storage Separation and Hierarchy

Unity Catalog supports hierarchical storage configuration:

1. Schema-level

2. Catalog-level

3. Metastore-level

Data separation can be achieved using dedicated cloud buckets (e.g., s3://myorg-hr-prod).

External Locations & Credentials

External locations link cloud storage paths with credentials. These are used to define external tables and volumes.
Unity Catalog in Databricks - Detailed Guide

Best Practices:

- Use volumes for SQL-based access.

- Avoid direct access to raw paths.

- Register tables instead of ad hoc file path access.

Lineage and Auditing

Unity Catalog automatically tracks the full lineage of tables, views, and notebooks. Audit logs include user activity, data

access, and permission changes. This is critical for compliance and operational observability.

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