Databricks
Last updated
Was this helpful?
Last updated
Was this helpful?
Immuta offers two integrations for Databricks:
: This integration supports working with database objects registered in Unity Catalog.
: This integration supports working with .
To determine which integration you should use, evaluate the following elements:
Cluster runtime
Databricks Runtime 11.3 and newer: See the list below to determine which integration is supported for your data's location.
Location of data: Where is your data?
Legacy Hive metastore: Databricks recommends that you migrate all data from the legacy Hive metastore to Unity Catalog. However, when this migration is not possible, use the to protect securables registered in the Hive metastore.
Unity Catalog: To protect securables registered in the Unity Catalog metastore, use the .
Legacy Hive metastore and Unity Catalog: If you need to work with database objects registered in both the legacy Hive metastore and in Unity Catalog, allows you to use both integrations.
Databricks metastore magic allows you to migrate your data from the Databricks legacy Hive metastore to the Unity Catalog metastore while protecting data and maintaining your current processes in a single Immuta instance.
Databricks metastore magic is for organizations who intend to use the , but must still protect tables in the Hive metastore until they can migrate all of their data to Unity Catalog.
Unity Catalog support is enabled in Immuta.
Databricks has two built-in metastores that contain metadata about your tables, views, and storage credentials:
Legacy Hive metastore: Created at the workspace level. This metastore contains metadata of the registered securables in that workspace available to query.
Unity Catalog metastore: Created at the account level and is attached to one or more Databricks workspaces. This metastore contains metadata of the registered securables available to query. All clusters on that workspace use the configured metastore and all workspaces that are configured to use a single metastore share those securables.
Databricks allows you to use the legacy Hive metastore and the Unity Catalog metastore simultaneously. However, Unity Catalog does not support controls on the Hive metastore, so you must attach a Unity Catalog metastore to your workspace and move existing databases and tables to the attached Unity Catalog metastore to use the governance capabilities of Unity Catalog.
Immuta's Databricks Spark integration and Unity Catalog integration enforce access controls on the Hive and Unity Catalog metastores, respectively. However, because these metastores have two distinct security models, users were discouraged from using both in a single Immuta instance before metastore magic; the Databricks Spark integration and Unity Catalog integration were unaware of each other, so using both concurrently caused undefined behavior.
In clusters A and D, Immuta enforces policies on data sources in each workspace's Hive metastore and in the Unity Catalog metastore shared by those workspaces. In clusters B, C, and E (which don't have Unity Catalog enabled in Databricks), Immuta enforces policies on data sources in the Hive metastores for each workspace.
With metastore magic, the Databricks Spark integration enforces policies only on data in the Hive metastore, while the Unity Catalog integration enforces policies on tables in the Unity Catalog metastore. The table below illustrates this policy enforcement.
Databricks SQL cannot run the Databricks Spark plugin to protect tables, so Hive metastore data sources will not be policy enforced in Databricks SQL.
Metastore magic reconciles the distinct security models of the legacy Hive metastore and the Unity Catalog metastore, allowing you to use multiple metastores (specifically, the Hive metastore or alongside Unity Catalog metastores) within a Databricks workspace and single Immuta instance and keep policies enforced on all your tables as you migrate them. The diagram below shows Immuta enforcing policies on registered tables across workspaces.
To enforce plugin-based policies on Hive metastore tables and Unity Catalog native controls on Unity Catalog metastore tables, enable the Databricks Spark integration and the Databricks Unity Catalog integration. Note that some Immuta policies are not supported in the Databricks Unity Catalog integration. See the for details.
To enforce policies on data sources in Databricks SQL, use to manually lock down Hive metastore data sources and the Databricks Unity Catalog integration to protect tables in the Unity Catalog metastore. Table access control is enabled by default on SQL warehouses, and any Databricks cluster without the Immuta plugin must have table access control enabled.
