Lakehouse Federation enables Databricks to connect directly to multiple data sources without migration, allowing business users to query unified data through Genie AI.
- •Connects to 20+ data platforms (AWS Glue, Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres, etc.) without copying data
- •Syncs metadata from source systems into Unity Catalog for unified governance and access controls
- •Preserves table descriptions and column comments from source systems for AI understanding
- •Unity Catalog Semantics allows defining business metrics and formulas once for consistent calculation across all tools
- •Genie AI can generate SQL queries and answer natural language questions using federated data in seconds
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