Apache Ranger

What do you like best?

Easy to integrate with any authorization interface and centralized audit board. It's easy to implement and write our own access control within week from start to production.

What do you dislike?

Installation on secured environment is difficult. Apache Ranger documents are outdated and it;s only possible for people who are mostly involved in development can easily set it up.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Centralized access to manage all of hadoop ecosystem access control, Hive, Presto and HDFS is plugins are easily managed through Ranger today.

Our story with Hive: We have used hive extensively in our ecosystem and we used to manage the user access from SQL based hive access control, Over the period of time when more and more users are on boarded to the system it was impossible to manage the access control and very difficult to manage it, That's when Apache Ranger came as rescue and we could manage 600+ policies.

Our story with Presto: In a federated environment we wanted to access control multiple connectors within one roof, That's where presto-ranger-plugin saves you. In a presto world there is no other access control is as powerful as Apache Ranger.