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Understand the Unity Catalog

Understand the Unity Catalog

- [Instructor] Unity Catalog is a new feature which has recently added in the Databricks, and it has, getting a lot of popularity. Let's understand Unity Catalog. What is Unity Catalog? Unity Catalog is a unified data governance solution in the Databricks. It is basically used to manage, secure, and monitor data across multiple Databricks workspace. Now, if we try to understand in a simple, plain layman terms, it is like that. If you have a multiple teams working for one enterprise itself and these multiple teams who is using multiple Databricks workspace account and they wanted to share the data between themselves, then Unity Catalog is one of the best way to do so. It is kind of a centralized platform for data access control, lineage tracking and compliance auditing. You can have a one admin, for an entire organization and from one location itself, you can entirely manage the data access throughout your organization. If we talk about some of the important features of the Unity…

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