Databricks Lakehouse Federation, Explained in 5 Minutes

This video discusses Lakehouse Federation, the query federation platform that enables you to use Databricks to run queries against multiple external data sources. It also describes how to set up Lakehouse Federation connections and create foreign catalogs in your Unity Catalog metastore. Lakehouse Federation is the query federation platform for Databricks. The term query federation describes a collection of features that enable users and systems to run queries against multiple data sources without needing to migrate all data to a unified system. Databricks uses Unity Catalog to manage query federation. You configure read-only connections to popular database solutions using drivers that are included on pro SQL warehouses, serverless SQL warehouses, and Databricks Runtime clusters. Unity Catalog’s data governance and data lineage tools ensure that data access is managed and audited for all federated queries made by the users in your Databricks workspaces.