# Install unitycatalog with Homebrew, chocolatey, winget

Open, Multi-modal Catalog for Data & AI. Version 0.5.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-18. Also installable with chocolatey: choco install uc.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:unitycatalog
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install unitycatalog
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Windows

- Chocolatey (92%):

```sh
choco install uc
```

  Evidence: Chocolatey community package catalog: uc from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='6.7743998','highlight'

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id Alibaba.UC -e
```

  Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: Alibaba.UC from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:unitycatalog
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.5.1
- **Source summary:** Open, Multi-modal Catalog for Data & AI
- **Homepage:** <https://unitycatalog.io/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/unitycatalog/unitycatalog>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-18T00:27:22Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- start-uc-server (alias)
- uc (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.5.1
## Project history and usage

Unity Catalog is an open source catalog and governance project for data and AI assets. In package-manager terms, the formula is useful because it installs both a local server launcher and a CLI for experimenting with catalogs, schemas, tables, volumes, functions, models, and integrations.

### Project history

The official documentation describes Unity Catalog as an open, multimodal catalog with an OpenAPI specification and Apache-2.0 implementation. It is designed to support multiple table formats, compute engines, and asset types, including tabular data, files, functions, and AI models.

The project launched publicly in July 2024. By the 0.2 release, the official blog highlighted external authentication, MLflow model support, Apache Spark and Delta Lake integration, and a new UI. The docs also note hosting under the LF AI & Data Foundation as a sandbox project.

### Adoption history

Unity Catalog's adoption story is tied to the lakehouse and AI-governance ecosystem rather than to a single CLI audience. The upstream README lists ecosystem support from cloud providers, query engines, data tooling vendors, AI tooling projects, and governance vendors.

For local package users, adoption starts with the quickstart workflow: run the UC server locally, then use the uc CLI to inspect and operate on catalog content. That makes the Homebrew package valuable as a reproducible local test harness for an otherwise infrastructure-oriented system.

### How it is used

The official quickstart shows a two-terminal workflow: start the Unity Catalog server, then use the CLI to list catalogs and schemas, operate on Delta tables, and exercise sample assets. Integration docs cover Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow model registration, Spice, LiteLLM, and AI function tooling.

Configuration is server-centered. Official auth docs point users at etc/conf/server.properties for identity-provider settings and describe local authorization data, while the quickstart and server docs keep the CLI/server pairing visible.

### Why package nerds care

Unity Catalog is package-nerd significant because it gives data engineers a local, open source implementation of a catalog API that otherwise lives in managed data-platform environments. A package manager can turn a governance server plus CLI into a fast local sandbox.

It also reflects a newer packaging pattern: CLI tools for AI and data infrastructure increasingly bundle local servers, OpenAPI-compatible services, sample data, auth configuration, and integrations with heavyweight runtimes such as Spark and MLflow.

### Timeline

- 2024: Unity Catalog launched publicly as an open source project.
- 2024: Version 0.2 added external authentication, MLflow model support, Spark and Delta Lake integration, and a UI.
- 2025: Documentation described Unity Catalog as an LF AI & Data Foundation sandbox project with open APIs and multimodal data and AI asset support.

### Related projects

- Related technologies in the official docs and README include Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg REST catalog compatibility, Apache Hive metastore API compatibility, MLflow, Spice OSS, LiteLLM, and table formats such as Delta, Iceberg, Hudi, Parquet, JSON, and CSV.
- The project also has a Rust implementation effort, unitycatalog-rs, which points to interest in native catalog implementations beyond the primary repository.

### Sources

- <https://docs.unitycatalog.io/>
- <https://docs.unitycatalog.io/quickstart/>
- <https://docs.unitycatalog.io/server/auth/>
- <https://github.com/unitycatalog/unitycatalog>
- <https://unitycatalog.io/blogs/unity-catalog-0-2-introduces-models-mlflow-and-spark-integration-and-support-for-external-identity-providers/>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. formula declares a Homebrew service.

- **Geiger risk:** orange / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
- formula declares a Homebrew service


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: etc/conf/server.properties, etc/conf/server.log4j2.properties, etc/conf/hibernate.properties

## Credential files

- Unix: etc/conf/server.properties, etc/conf/token.txt
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Chocolatey - uc: installed executable or alias match | Chocolatey community package catalog: uc from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='6.7743998','highlight'
- winget - Alibaba.UC: installed executable or alias match | Windows Package Manager source index: Alibaba.UC from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix
- winget - Alibaba.UCCloudDrive: installed executable or alias match | Windows Package Manager source index: Alibaba.UCCloudDrive from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix
- winget - MaxDiesel.UnrealCommander: installed executable or alias match | Windows Package Manager source index: MaxDiesel.UnrealCommander from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/unitycatalog.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/unitycatalog.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph