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We are excited to announce that we are open sourcing Unity Catalog, the industry’s first open source catalog for data and AI governance across clouds, data formats, and data platforms. Here are the most important pillars of the Unity Catalog vision:Open source API and implementation: It is built on OpenAPI spec and an open source server implementation under Apache 2.0 license. It is also compatible with Apache Hive's metastore API and Apache Iceberg's REST catalog API.Multi-format support: It is extensible and supports Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg via UniForm, Apache Parquet, CSV, and all the formats out there.Multi-engine support: With its…