cmgrote / egeria-connector-hadoop-ecosystem

ODPi Egeria Apache Atlas Connector

Hadoop Ecosystem Repository Connectors

This repository houses the ODPi Egeria connectors for various Hadoop ecosystem components:

• Apache Atlas connector implements read-only connectivity to the Apache Atlas metadata repository.
• Apache Ranger is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform. (Coming soon.)

Quick links

• See our Getting Started guide for step-by-step instructions on using these connectors to integrate Apache Atlas with Egeria.
• See the CTS Results for details on its conformance.

How it works

There is currently only an Apache Atlas connector. This connector integrates into the Open Connector Framework (OCF) and implements certain methods that adhere to the interfaces required by a repository proxy. These then communicate with Apache Atlas via Apache Atlas's Java client (in turn communicating via Apache Atlas's REST API) to read information from an Apache Atlas environment.

This requires an existing Apache Atlas environment to already be running elsewhere: the connector simply connects to this existing environment and "proxies" any requests from Egeria into a series of native API calls against the environment.

Overview of the connector implementation

Note that the connector operates only in a read-only manner: no write operations (creates or updates) are implemented against Apache Atlas. Furthermore, only a subset of the open metadata types are currently mapped.

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License: CC BY 4.0, Copyright Contributors to the ODPi Egeria project.