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Source: Cloudera The following post was originally published by the Sentry community at apache.org. We re-publish it here for your convenience. We are very excited to announce that  Apache Sentry  has graduated out of Incubator and is now an Apache Top-Level Project! Sentry, which provides centralized fine-grained access control on metadata and data stored in Apache Hadoop clusters, was introduced as an Apache Incubator project back in August 2013. In the past two and a half years, the development community grew significantly to a large number of contributors from various organizations. Upon graduation, there were more than 50 contributors, 31 of whom had become committers. What’s Sentry? While Hadoop has strong security at the filesystem level, it lacked the granular support needed to adequately secure access to data by users and BI applications. This problem forces users to make a choice: either leave data unprotected or lock out users entirely. Most of the time, the...

                                                                                                                                 Source: Cloudera Blog The recently-released Apache Hive 2.0 contains some exciting improvements, many of which are already available in CDH 5.x. Recently, the Apache Hive community announced Hive 2.0.0. This is a larger release...