Apache Sentry is a system for enforcing fine grained role based authorization to data and metadata stored on a Hadoop cluster.
Apache Sentry is a system for enforcing fine grained role based authorization to data and metadata stored on a Hadoop cluster.
Sentry currently integrates with the open source SQL query frameworks, Apache Hive and Apache Impala (incubating), and the open source search engine, Cloudera Search, and can also extend to other computing engines within the Hadoop ecosystem.
It was originally developed by Cloudera, but graduated in March 2016 to become a top-Level Apache project: