What makes a catalog open? Unity Catalog Advances the Open Lakehouse
Summary
Unity Catalog is the first catalog to support the Apache Iceberg REST catalog spec for REGISTER and UNREGISTER, enabling seamless table movement across catalogs without data duplication. By keeping managed tables in customer-owned storage, it provides full data portability while delivering advanced catalog features directly on tables you own.
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