Federate, mirror, or ingest: the decision between Databricks and Fabric
Federating, mirroring, and ingesting are not synonyms — and in Fabric "mirroring" already means three different mechanisms. When to use Lakehouse Federation, when to mirror a catalog or a database into Microsoft Fabric, when to ingest with Lakeflow Connect, what is actually free, and why source permissions do not cross the OneLake boundary.
