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UNITY CATALOG

Unified governance for data, apps and AI agents

Ensure your data, models, agents and apps are discoverable, governed and secure
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BENEFITS

From trusted data to reliable AI, in one catalog

Ground your AI in trusted data with shared business context, govern what your models and agents can do, and run anywhere.

Unified data and AI assets

Bring all your AI assets such as agents, AI apps, MCPs and models under the same discovery, governance and guardrails as your data, across the clouds and platforms.

Context-rich discovery

Leverage shared business semantics to help your users and agents discover trusted data and AI assets with the context they need to use them confidently.

AI-powered governance controls

Built-in intelligence automatically enforces access policies, protects sensitive data, monitors quality and optimizes performance across your platform.

FEATURES

Bring all of your data and AI assets in one catalog

Use one catalog to manage all your data and AI assets, including models, agents and MCPs, across any cloud or platform.

Control what agents, models and MCPs can access and do, with the same governance, spend controls and visibility you apply to data, through Unity AI Gateway.

Govern AI alongside your data

Work with any open format (Delta, Iceberg, Parquet) and access data across platforms without moving it, via open APIs and federation.

Use any data format or platform

Discover, govern and access across clouds and regions, with one trusted view, built-in disaster recovery and global compute optionality.

Govern across clouds and regions
FEATURES

Trusted discovery for users and agents

Help humans and agents find, understand and trust the right data and AI assets with shared context, semantics and signals across your entire estate.

Unity Catalog delivers AI-powered curation of your most trusted data and AI assets, including tables, dashboards and models, with shared business context in one unified experience.

Organize and discover data and AI

Unity Catalog creates a unified, governed semantic foundation so business users, technical teams and AI agents operate from the same meaning and deliver trusted insights.

Enterprise data semantic layer architecture.

End-to-end automated column-level lineage for data and AI assets to simplify impact analysis, troubleshooting, governance and AI audits.

Automated Lineage
FEATURES

Automated governance, built in

Scale consistent governance across every data and AI asset automatically, with optimized performance and no manual controls.

Apply one policy model across your data estate. Unity Catalog uses attributes, tags and automated classification to enforce granular access at scale without manual effort.

Data policy creation with classification audit.

Automated, AI-driven quality monitoring for all data and AI assets, exposing real-time trust signals wherever your teams and AI agents work.

Agentic quality monitoring

Monitor enterprise governance, cost and AI usage in one view, with built-in insights into gaps, risky access changes and policy drift.

One view to monitor governance

Unity Catalog Managed Tables deliver AI-driven optimization for faster queries and lower cost, with self-tuning layout that scales to your usage

Automatic performance optimization
USE CASES

Unlock the full business value of data with unified governance

Marketing data hub with dashboards, tables, models.

Enable data mesh and domain data products with unified governance

Enable teams to own and publish high-quality data products while maintaining centralized visibility, security and trust across the organization.

  • Apply consistent governance policies across domain data products and platforms
  • Make domain data products easy to discover with centralized metadata and lineage
  • Automatically classify and tag sensitive data to enable scalable access control
  • Maintain a single control plane for federated governance and audit
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