Unity Catalog

Unity Catalog is Databricks' open-source governance layer providing unified access control, data lineage, and auditing for financial data and ML models on the Databricks lakehouse platform. Fine-grained access controls enable financial institutions to enforce column-level and row-level security on sensitive financial datasets, ensuring only authorized users access specific financial records. AI model governance tracks the lineage of financial ML models from training data through deployment, enabling reproducibility and audit trails for model risk management. Delta Sharing enables secure financial data exchange with external partners, regulators, and auditors while maintaining governance controls. Free with any Databricks workspace, it provides governance without additional licensing cost.