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Unity Catalog
San Francisco, California, USA · Founded 2021
10000+ employees
Sourced & current · updated May 11, 2026
Databricks's governance + lineage catalog. Open-sourced June 2024. Direct competitor to Snowflake's Apache Polaris.
Where they sit
Stack tier: Infrastructure & Data (B)
Privacy TechnologyData Management Platform
Leading open-source data catalog and governance layer for Lakehouse architectures, competing directly with Snowflake's Apache Polaris and proprietary catalogs like AWS Glue and Google Dataplex.
Ownership
Parent: Databricks