Unity Catalog, Databricks' data governance platform, is expanding capabilities to query data across multiple sources including Oracle databases and Apache Iceberg tables. The technology is gaining adoption among enterprises managing large-scale data operations, with direct competition emerging from Snowflake's Horizon offering.
·Unity Catalog now enables querying Iceberg tables and Oracle Autonomous AI Database from Databricks
·Enterprise users like Mercedes-Benz Korea and Magnite are leveraging semantic layers and governance for AI workloads
·Snowflake Horizon presents competing approach to unified data governance and multi-source querying
·Data + AI Summit 2026 showcasing new Unity Catalog features and integrations
drawn from Databricks, Oracle Blogs, Snowflake, The Futurum Group · updated 7d ago