What is the primary purpose of a data catalog in a lakehouse environment?
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A data catalog serves as a searchable inventory of data assets enriched with metadata; business glossary terms; data lineage; and access policies; enabling governed data discovery across the lakehouse.
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A data catalog serves as a searchable inventory of data assets enriched with metadata; business glossary terms; data lineage; and access policies; enabling governed data discovery across the lakehouse. The incorrect options ("To execute distributed SQL queries across the storage layer", "To compress and index Parquet files for faster query performance", "To replicate data between cloud regions for disaster recovery") are distractors that don't fully capture the concept described.