Question

A data engineering team is setting up Unity Catalog for their Databricks account. They plan to attach several workspaces located in the same cloud region to a shared governance layer so that catalogs, schemas, and tables can be centrally managed and shared. What is the correct relationship between a Unity Catalog metastore and workspaces in a given region?

Accepted Answer

A single metastore can be created per region and attached to multiple workspaces in that region to enable shared governance.

Answer

Each workspace must have its own dedicated metastore, and metastores cannot be shared.

Answer

A metastore spans all regions in the account and is automatically shared with every workspace globally.

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Metastores are created at the catalog level, so each catalog requires a separate metastore.