Unity Catalog's expanded Open APIs enable interoperable data governance across multiple compute engines.
- •External engines like Apache Spark, Flink, and DuckDB can create and write to UC managed Delta tables with automatic optimizations
- •Credential vending (GA) provides short-lived, scoped credentials through M2M OAuth for secure external access without static permissions
- •UC managed tables deliver up to 20× faster queries and 50% lower storage costs through Predictive Optimization
- •Catalog commits ensure serialized writes and complete auditability while preventing log corruption
- •Volume credential vending extends governance to unstructured data like images, PDFs, and videos
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