Establish Unity Catalog fundamentals

Intermediate
Data Engineer
Solution Architect
Azure Databricks

Discover how Unity Catalog provides unified data governance across your Azure Databricks lakehouse architecture. Learn about governance challenges, explore metastore components, and implement external storage integration.

Learning objectives

In this module, you learn how to:

  • Assess data governance challenges and evaluate Unity Catalog as a solution
  • Analyze the Unity Catalog metastore architecture and three-level namespace structure
  • Explore external storage integration and Lakehouse Federation capabilities

Prerequisites

Before starting this module, you should have:

  • Basic understanding of data lakehouse concepts
  • Familiarity with Azure Databricks workspace navigation
  • Introductory knowledge of SQL