databricks Platform · Updated Dec 15, 2025

Delta Sharing to external Iceberg clients is in Public Preview

You can now share tables, materialized views, and streaming tables to external Iceberg clients such as Snowflake, Trino, Flink, and Spark.

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What it does

You can now share tables, materialized views, and streaming tables to external Iceberg clients such as Snowflake, Trino, Flink, and Spark. External Iceberg clients can query shared Delta tables with zero copy access. For details, see Enable sharing to external Iceberg clients and Iceberg clients: Read shared data.

Why it matters

Reduces operational overhead and unlocks new capabilities for data teams on Databricks.

Key capabilities

Create catalogs from shares with

Create catalogs from shares with the click of a button.

Use Unity Catalog access controls

Use Unity Catalog access controls to grant access to shared tables.

Query shared data using standard

Query shared data using standard Unity Catalog syntax.

Apply a rotated credential to

Apply a rotated credential to the existing provider object without recreating the catalog. See Rotate credentials for open…

Architecture

Databricks Platform → Platform

In short

Read the full documentation ↗

Key takeaway

You can now share tables, materialized views, and streaming tables to external Iceberg clients such as Snowflake, Trino, Flink, and Spark.

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