Unity Catalog: Open and Universal Governance for the Lakehouse and Beyond

Summary: Unity Catalog is an open-source, universal Lakehouse catalog delivering governance across tabular data, unstructured data, and AI models. Open-source since 2024, UC provides APIs and implementations, deployed in many environments with interop. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7122
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.4853979e-05
Overall Rank: 8,608 | 40.12%
DOI: 10.1145/3722212.3724459

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,196	PTO: A Workload-driven Predictive Table Optimizer for Lakehouse Systems	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,248	Active Data Lakes: Regaining Physical Data Independence Without Losing Interoperability	2026	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
13,124	Delta Sharing: An Open Protocol for Cross-Platform Data Sharing	2025	VLDB	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
188	Applying Model Management to Classical Meta Data Problems	2003	CIDR	0.00035968389
426	Amazon Redshift and the Case for Simpler Data Warehouses	2015	SIGMOD	0.00023594359
610	Goods: Organizing Google's Datasets	2016	SIGMOD	0.00019232674
621	Schema Mappings, Data Exchange, and Metadata Management	2005	PODS	0.00019005115
659	The Making of TPC-DS	2006	VLDB	0.00018500853
746	Delta Lake: High-Performance ACID Table Storage over Cloud Object Stores	2020	VLDB	0.00017326979
939	Data Lake Management: Challenges and Opportunities	2019	VLDB	0.00015187344
1,377	Lakehouse: A New Generation of Open Platforms that Unify Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics	2021	CIDR	0.00012296941
2,269	Ground: A Data Context Service	2017	CIDR	9.147379e-05
3,281	Constance: An Intelligent Data Lake System	2016	SIGMOD	7.2823287e-05
3,973	Apache Hive: From MapReduce to Enterprise-grade Big Data Warehousing	2019	SIGMOD	6.5758017e-05
9,093	Databricks Lakeguard: Supporting Fine-grained Access Control and Multi-user Capabilities for Apache Spark Workloads	2025	SIGMOD	4.398149e-05

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