Unified governance for data, apps and AI agents
Ensure your data, models, agents and apps are discoverable, governed and secure
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Unity Catalog: from trusted data to reliable AI
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.
Find trusted data and AI assets with business context
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.
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 Gateway.
Work with any open format (Delta, Iceberg, Parquet) and access data across platforms without moving it, via open APIs and federation.
Discover, govern and access across clouds and regions, with one trusted view, built-in disaster recovery and global compute optionality.
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.
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.
End-to-end automated column-level lineage for data and AI assets to simplify impact analysis, troubleshooting, governance and AI audits.
Automated governance for every data and AI asset
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.
Automated, AI-driven quality monitoring for all data and AI assets, exposing real-time trust signals wherever your teams and AI agents work.
Monitor enterprise governance, cost and AI usage in one view, with built-in insights into gaps, risky access changes and policy drift.
Unity Catalog Managed Tables deliver AI-driven optimization for faster queries and lower cost, with self-tuning layout that scales to your usage
Unity Catalog use cases for data and AI governance
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
Discover more
Explore products that extend the power of Unity Catalog across governance, collaboration and data intelligence.
Genie One
A conversational experience, powered by generative AI, for business teams to explore data and self-serve insights in real time through natural language.
Lakehouse Storage
Eliminate data management headaches with open table formats, centralized governance and automatic data optimizations.
OpenSharing
An open source approach to data and AI sharing across platforms. Share live data with centralized governance and no replication.
Databricks Clean Rooms
Analyze shared data from multiple parties without providing direct access to the raw data.
Databricks Marketplace
An open marketplace for data, as well as AI and analytics assets such as ML models and notebooks.
Next steps: Unity Catalog docs and demos
Unity Catalog FAQ
Unity Catalog is Databricks' unified governance solution for data, models, agents and apps, making them discoverable, governed and secure. It brings all AI assets — including agents, AI apps, MCPs and models — under the same discovery, governance and guardrails as your data, across clouds and platforms. This gives teams one catalog for shared business context, fine-grained access control, lineage and quality monitoring across the entire data and AI estate.
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