Meetup at Strata + Hadoop World NYC 2015

Agenda:

7-730pm:
Networking

730-750pm:
Apache Sentry Roadmap: Review Recent Progress and What's Planned in Sentry
Steve Ross, Product Manager at Cloudera.
We'll review recent additions to Sentry, such as HDFS/SQL permissions sync - enabling a single table permission rule to be enforced not only in Hive and Impala but also when users access the table's underlying data through a variety of non-SQL applications. We'll also look at future plans, including permissions based on rows, classification tags, and other attributes.

750-810pm:
RecordService: A Secure and Unified Data Access Path for Compute Frameworks
Nong Li, Lead Software Engineer at Cloudera.
A new service called RecordService provides a common API for frameworks such as MR and Spark to read data from Hadoop storage managers and return them as canonical records. This eliminates the need for applications and Hadoop components to support individual file formats, handle data security, perform auditing, implement sophisticated IO scheduling and other common processing that is at the bottom of any computation. This talk will preview this new service, and how it can enforce column and row-level Sentry permissions in MR, Spark, and beyond.

810-830pm:
Column-level Permissions: Why They are Useful, and How to Use Them
Anne Yu, Software Quality Engineer at Cloudera.
Sentry has supported permissions on views since its inception in 2013. Recently, explicit column-level permissions have been added to the project, simplifying application coding since there is no longer a need to switch between multiple views, depending on user access level. This talk provides an overview.