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apache/atlas

Apache Atlas - Open Metadata Management and Governance capabilities across the Hadoop platform and beyond observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/apache/atlas · homepage · Java · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

77/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 3329
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 7
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2136 stars · 901 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Apache Atlas is an open-source metadata management and data governance framework providing a shared metadata store, data lineage, and classification for the Hadoop ecosystem and beyond. It integrates with Apache Ranger for policy-based access control and offers REST APIs plus a web UI for searching and governing enterprise metadata.

Use cases

  • build a data catalog for our enterprise data lake
  • track table and column lineage across Hadoop jobs
  • classify sensitive data for compliance and governance
  • integrate metadata with Apache Ranger for access control
  • search and discover datasets across the data ecosystem
  • manage business taxonomy and glossary terms for data assets

When to choose

  • you run Hadoop or big-data infrastructure and need centralized metadata governance
  • you need automated data lineage and classification across many data systems
  • you want metadata-driven security policies via Ranger integration

When to avoid

  • you need a lightweight catalog for a small cloud-native stack without Hadoop
  • you cannot operate a JVM-based service with its own graph database and dependencies
  • you only need simple schema documentation rather than full governance

Facets

application · maturity active

search-engine api-framework monitoring security big-data databases analytics security jvm python self-hosted data-governance metadata-management data-lineage data-catalog hadoop apache-ranger graph-database compliance data-engineering docker web-server

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RepositoryRoleHealth v2
apache/atlasmain77

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