Databricks says Unity Catalog moves Iceberg tables between catalogs without copying data
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Databricks says Unity Catalog now supports the REGISTER and UNREGISTER operations from the Apache Iceberg REST catalog spec, which move Iceberg tables between catalogs without data movement.
The company says it contributed UNREGISTER to the spec, making the capability an open standard. It also says Unity Catalog managed tables in customer-owned storage keep their data in buckets the customer controls. These claims come from Databricks' own blog post, and no independent source is cited in the report.
Written by AI from the articles below · updated Oct 19, 5:37 PM ET
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AIDatabricks says Unity Catalog now supports REGISTER and UNREGISTER from the Apache Iceberg REST catalog spec, letting tables move between catalogs without data movement. Databricks says it contributed UNREGISTER to the spec, making the capability an open standard. Unity Catalog managed tables in customer-owned storage keep data in buckets the customer controls.
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