Hi, Falcon is a data management system which makes acquisition, retention, replication and processing of recurring data easier. In doing so, for the data it manages, it also provides lineage, and monitoring.
Atlas is a pure metadata management system, and doesn't manage data. It captures metadata across all the components in the hadoop stack, not just falcon. Currently, it has integration with hive, falcon, sqoop, storm and kafka. It also has the ability to model business taxonomy, capture lineage across components, tagging, tag based policies(using ranger). Makes sense? Regards, Shwetha From: "Choudhury, Iftekhar [USA]" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Tuesday, 26 January 2016 8:32 pm To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, Hortonworks Communications <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Question about differences between Atlas and Falcon Hi, I am a Hadoop Architect for Booz Allen Hamilton and my company is looking at the data governance tools that Hortonworks provides. I have done some research on Falcon and Atlas and I have a question about these two tools. If Falcon can perform the data governance pretty well with all its policies, monitoring tools, and lineage, what was the need to introduce Atlas? What are the core differences between Atlas and Falcon? What is there in Atlas that Falcon couldn't provide? Thank you, Iftekhar Choudhury [Booz Allen Hamilton] Iftekhar Choudhury Staff Technologist Office 571-346-4775 www.boozallen.com<http://www.boozallen.com/>
