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At the heart of these governance capabilities is BigQuery universal catalog, a centralized inventory of the data assets in your organization. Universal catalog brings together the data catalog capabilities of Dataplex Catalog and the runtime metastore capabilities of BigQuery metastore. Universal catalog holds business, technical, and runtime metadata for all of your data. It helps you discover relationships and semantics in the metadata by applying artificial intelligence and machine learning. Learn more.

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