UNITY CATALOG SEMANTICS

Open and adaptive context for agents, apps and BI

Centralize business definitions you can trust across all your tools and use cases.

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BENEFITS

Reduce hallucinations, build trust

Authoritative business context from user-defined semantics and automatically learned knowledge, giving agents, apps and BI one trusted source.

Any data source

Create certified business concepts and KPIs from any data source: databases, catalogs, business apps and workspace assets like notebooks, dashboards, files and models. Organized by business domains and built on your existing governance policies.

Continuously learned

Power AI agents and humans with an adaptive semantic layer that learns from user interactions, usage signals, lineage and existing knowledge sources. Keep your semantics up to date without any upfront manual modeling for accurate answers.

Open and reusable

Access and share your business semantics across tools and use cases. With SQL, API and MCP-addressable semantics, you can easily reuse them with your favorite BI tools, notebooks and AI agents, all without vendor lock-in.

FEATURES

Stop debating the numbers

Bring centralized semantics into every decision.

Power agents, apps and BI with enterprise context built from user-defined semantics in Unity Catalog and automatically learned knowledge from disparate sources.

Enterprise data semantic layer architecture.

A continuously improving, automatically inferred knowledge graph of business terms, entities and KPIs that grounds Genie answers and actions.

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Databricks Genie Ontology data lineage graph.

Fuel context from any source, including databases, catalogs, business apps and workspace assets like notebooks, dashboards and models.

Build measures, dimensions and relationships mapped to your KPIs, materialized for performance. Author with AI agents and query from SQL, MCP or BI tools.

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Define authoritative concepts, terms and taxonomies that help agents and people understand your business, maintained with agentic authoring and drift detection.

Organize data and AI assets into business-aligned groups, giving agents scoped context with certification and stewardship signals for what’s reliable.

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Compose semantics on your data, and governance policies apply automatically with lineage, access controls and usage insights out of the box.

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Fully open source, with AI-powered migrations to help bring your existing definitions over quickly. OSI-compliant, with no lock-in.

Query your semantics from anywhere through MCP, SQL and API across your favorite BI tools, Genie and AI/BI dashboards, all with no vendor lock-in.

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Unity Catalog Semantics integration flow

USE CASES

Bringing consistency and context to every decision

Empower everyone to benefit from trusted insights

Empower BI tools, such as AI/BI Dashboards or external BI tools, and exploratory data analysis with governed metrics and definitions so every chart, dashboard and notebook reflects a trusted source of truth.

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Surfacing Metric Views in AI/BI

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Explore products that extend the power of Unity Catalog Semantics across BI and AI.

Unity Catalog

The industry’s only unified and open governance solution for data and AI, built into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

AI/BI

An AI-assisted business intelligence solution, built into the Databricks Platform, to quickly create analytical datasets, interactive dashboards and data visualizations for your business teams.