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Databricks is folding governance into one AI layer, and users are asking if catalogs are dead
Three items today point the same direction: Databricks is consolidating governance into a single, account-level, AI-accessible layer (Governance Hub, cross-engine and cross-catalog unification under Unity Catalog), rather than leaving governance as a separate catalog product. At the same time, the community is openly debating whether this shift makes the traditional data catalog concept obsolete, since agents and a unified control plane can now mediate access instead of a browsable catalog UI.
If you're still investing engineering time in a standalone catalog UI or per-engine governance rules, start planning for that logic to move into Databricks' unified, agent-facing governance layer instead.
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