Azure Databricks Unity Catalog is a unified governance solution for all data, analytics, and AI assets in your Azure Databricks environment. It offers centralized access control, auditing, lineage, and data discovery capabilities across Azure Databricks workspaces.

Key benefits of using Unity Catalog:

• Centralized governance: It provides a single place to manage access control, auditing, and lineage for all data assets.
• Fine-grained security: You can define permissions at the level of catalogs, schemas, tables, and views.
• Data discovery: Unity Catalog makes discovering and understanding your data assets easy.
• Compliance: It helps you meet compliance requirements with built-in auditing and lineage tracking.

Key features:

• Standards-compliant security model: Unity Catalog uses a standard ANSI SQL-based security model for granting permissions.
• External tables and views: It supports the creation of external tables and views that reference data in your data lake.
• Managed tables: You can create managed tables in the Unity Catalog, automatically optimized for performance.
• Integration with Delta Sharing: Unity Catalog integrates with Delta Sharing, making it easy to share data with others.
• Support for diverse data sources: Unity Catalog supports a variety of data sources, including files, tables, and views.