Foreign Apache Iceberg tables are now in Public Preview.
Foreign Apache Iceberg tables are now in Public Preview. You can read Iceberg tables managed by foreign catalogs, such as HMS, Glue, and Snowflake Horizon Catalog, using Lakehouse Federation. These tables support Unity Catalog advanced features such as fine grained access controls, lineage, and auditing.
Foreign tables contain data and metadata managed by external systems, with Unity Catalog adding data governance to query these tables.
Foreign Apache Iceberg tables are now in Public Preview. You can read Iceberg tables managed by foreign catalogs, such as HMS, Glue, and Snowflake Horizon Catalog, using Lakehouse Federation.
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