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Dataplex is an intelligent data fabric that helps you unify distributed data and automate
data management and governance across that data to power analytics at scale.
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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.
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Last updated 2025-04-23 UTC.
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