Data Governance with Unity Catalog
Databricks Unity Catalog is a unified governance solution for data and AI on a lakehouse. It allows you to securely discover, access, and collaborate on trusted data and AI assets from various platforms and clouds, leveraging AI to boost productivity and compliance.
Unity Catalog is a tool that helps you control, audit, trace, and discover data across Databricks workspaces. You can set up data access rules in one place and enforce them in all workspaces, following the ANSI SQL security standards. You can also see who created and used data assets, and how they did it, in any language. In addition, Unity Catalog allows you to label and describe data assets and offers a way to search for data that you need.
In this chapter, you will learn how to use Databricks Unity Catalog for data governance. We will cover the following recipes:
- Connecting to cloud object storage using Unity Catalog
- Creating and managing catalogs, schemas, volumes...