Re: HMS catalogs and Sentry

sasha, Thanks for the explanation. Will look closer into the discussion in Jira. *Thanks,Kalyan Kumar Kalvagadda* | Software Engineer t. (469) 279- <00>5732 cloudera.com [image: Cloudera] [image: Cloudera on Twitter]

Re: HMS catalogs and Sentry

I think the way Alan Gates describes it is that the reason is coexistence of different databases within HMS for example Kafka may store its metadata within 'kafka' catalog, etc. The data within each catalog seems to be the same though - it is still databases, tables and partitions. There is some

Re: HMS catalogs and Sentry

I feel, we need to understand it better before considering to put in sentry wish list. *Thanks,Kalyan Kumar Kalvagadda* | Software Engineer t. (469) 279- <00>5732 cloudera.com [image: Cloudera] [image: Cloudera on Twitter]

Re: HMS catalogs and Sentry

Sasha, The jira https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-18755 has no description on what's the motivation of having catalog and how it works. Is catalog similar to namespace, so all databases in a catalog can be managed by one entity? Do you know any description that would help us

Re: HMS catalogs and Sentry

See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-18755. Basically catalog is a container for databases - all databases belong to a catalog. This means that Sentry may need to support catalog-level privileges. - Alex On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 5:06 PM, Kalyan Kumar Kalvagadda < kkal...@cloudera.com>

Re: HMS catalogs and Sentry

Sasha, Could you share information on what catalog is? -Kalyan *Thanks,Kalyan Kumar Kalvagadda* | Software Engineer t. (469) 279- <00>5732 cloudera.com [image: Cloudera] [image: Cloudera on Twitter]

HMS catalogs and Sentry

Hive 3 introduced the notion of catalog. What do people think about supporting it in Sentry as well? At some point we will move to Hive-3 and then it will become a requirement I guess. - Alex