Question

A retail analytics company needs to share a curated Delta table from their Unity Catalog metastore with an external partner organization that does NOT use Databricks. The partner will consume the data using their own tools (e.g., pandas, Apache Spark, Power BI). Which Unity Catalog feature should the data engineer use to securely share this data without copying it to the partner's environment?

Accepted Answer

Delta Sharing, by creating a share and adding the partner as a recipient using an open-protocol activation link

Answer

Grant the partner's users SELECT privileges directly on the table in the shared metastore

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Export the table to CSV files in cloud storage and grant the partner access to the storage bucket

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Create a dynamic view with row filters and add the partner group to the workspace