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Data Governance with Unity Catalog on Databricks
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Data Governance with Unity Catalog on Databricks

by Kiran Sreekumar, Karthik Subbarao
September 2025
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
11h 34m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Overview

Organizations collecting and using personal data must now heed a growing body of regulations, and the penalties for noncompliance are stiff. The ubiquity of the cloud and the advent of generative AI have only made it more crucial to govern data appropriately. Thousands of companies have turned to Databricks Unity Catalog to simplify data governance and manage their data and AI assets more effectively. This practical guide helps you do the same.

Databricks data specialists Kiran Sreekumar and Karthik Subbarao dive deep into Unity Catalog and share the best practices that enable data practitioners to build and serve their data and AI assets at scale. Data product owners, data engineers, AI/ML engineers, and data executives will examine various facets of data governance—including data sharing, auditing, access controls, and automation—as they discover how to establish a robust data governance framework that complies with regulations.

  • Explore data governance fundamentals and understand how they relate to Unity Catalog
  • Utilize Unity Catalog to unify data and AI governance
  • Access data efficiently for analytics
  • Implement different data protection mechanisms
  • Securely share data and AI assets internally and externally with Delta Sharing
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