Abstract: Various example embodiments described herein provide for systems, methods, devices, instructions, and the like for performing commit operations (e.g., write operations) with recovery on a data system, such as a database system, that is interacting with a data source external to the data system, such as an external catalog. For some example embodiments, the database system generates an operation identifier in association with each command to commit a change to an entity of the catalog linked database, where the operation identifier serves as a unique tracking mechanism for commit operations across the distributed systems.