Unity Catalog

Dropping Managed vs External Tables in Unity Catalog: What’s the Difference❓ When you drop a managed table from #UnityCatalog, the underlying data is also removed. This is quick and avoids confusion downstream when data has not been physically removed. When you drop an…

Unity Catalog lets you store and manage functions—just like data assets—using a structured three-level namespace: <𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚘𝚐>.<𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚖𝚊>.<𝚏𝚞𝚗𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗_𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎> 🔑 Why use Unity Catalog for functions? 🔹 Reuse code across teams and projects 🔹 Apply granular…

🎥 Daft and Unity Catalog: A Multimodal/AI-Native Lakehouse In this session, Jay Chia (Co-Founder, Eventual) walks through how the open-source @daftengine integrates with #UnityCatalog to manage and process multimodal datasets—images, video, documents, embeddings, and…

Watch Now 🎥 Extending the Lakehouse: Power Interoperable Compute With Unity Catalog Open APIs Lakehouse architectures are built for flexible storage, but compute interoperability is becoming just as important. In this session, Michelle Leon and Tathagata Das (@Databricks) walk…

Unity Catalog integrates with leading tools like @LangChainAI, @llama_index, @OpenAI, @AnthropicAI, @crewAIInc, @pyautogen, and more. 🙌 These integrations make it easy to manage data, functions, and access control—so your AI tools remain secure, organized, and accessible across…

Ever hit a bug and forget where the function was written? 🤯 In Unity Catalog AI 0.3.0, the new 𝚐𝚎𝚝_𝚏𝚞𝚗𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗_𝚜𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚎 API saves you the trouble of digging through repos. Just provide the catalog, schema, and function name—and get back the full, formatted source…

Why use @llama_index with Unity Catalog? 🦙 🌐 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘀: Store all your data, models, and AI functions together. LlamaIndex connects directly—no need to copy or move things. 🔐 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀…

Managing AI assets and workflows can be complex. ⬇️ Here’s how Unity Catalog and @OpenAI make it easier: 🔹 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: Keep all your data, models, and AI functions in one place. OpenAI can access what it needs without moving or duplicating data, and you don’t…

What happens to sandboxing when your client is calling a Unity Catalog server that's running remotely❓ When you call a function from a remote Unity Catalog server, the function definition is fetched and cached locally. Execution always happens client-side, in a secure sandboxed…

Daft was one of the first to natively integrate with @unitycatalog_io. You can use Daft’s catalog API to query Unity tables using both SQL and Python DataFrame, such as filtering with a WHERE clause in a .sql() expression. Try it yourself and get started: pip install daft[unity]…

Secure Your AI Applications with Unity Catalog AI 🔐 As AI adoption accelerates, security and governance are more important than ever. Unity Catalog delivers robust, granular access control for all your data and AI assets—including seamless support for your AI integrations. How…

Looking to build LLM-powered apps like chatbots, document summarizers, or data explorers without compromising on data governance? 🔐 Our latest blog shows you how to use #UnityCatalog with @llama_index to organize, secure, and efficiently query your data for AI use cases. Unity…

Are you building AI applications with @OpenAI and struggling to manage scattered data, models, and functions? 🧩 Unity Catalog gives you a single, secure place to organize all your AI assets. OpenAI models can seamlessly access trusted data and custom functions—no more manual…

Machine learning and AI workflows are full of experimentation—multiple training runs, fine-tuning, and constant iteration. But as models multiply, so does the need for robust governance. 🔒 With tools like @MLflow and Unity Catalog, you can: 🔹 Track and manage every model…

Unity Catalog ➕ OpenAI = 🤝 If you’re building AI applications with @OpenAI, you know the challenge: data, models, and functions scattered everywhere, each with their own access rules. 🤯 #UnityCatalog gives you a single place to manage your data and AI assets, making it easier…

Experience seamless AI management with Unity Catalog and @LangChainAI! 🙌 This integration allows you to centralize your AI functions, models, and data, control access, and reuse assets. Effortlessly switch between GenAI platforms with built-in security—no manual migration…

Attending Data+AI Summit this week? 🚀 Catch “Daft and Unity Catalog: A Multimodal/AI-Native Lakehouse”! Catch “Daft and Unity Catalog: A Multimodal/AI-Native Lakehouse” and discover how leading data teams are harnessing #UnityCatalog and the @daftengine open source data engine…

💥 Data is open. Compute should be too. Discover how true multi-engine interoperability is unlocked with Unity Catalog open APIs at Data + AI Summit. 📢 Talk: Extending the Lakehouse: Power Interoperable Compute with Unity Catalog Open APIs 📍 June 11 @ 4:10 PM PT This session…

Open Source Unity Catalog: Getting Started, Best Practices and Governance at Scale 🚀 Attending #DataAISummit this week? Here’s a session you don’t want to miss! Explore how to use Unity Catalog, discover its latest features, and dive into the open source ecosystem. 🙌 In this…

NEW blog post 🚀 Managed vs. External Tables in Unity Catalog What’s the difference and when should you use each? ✅ Managed tables are ideal when you want simplicity. Unity Catalog manages both your data and metadata in one place, making data management seamless and secure.…