Apache Sentry Reviews & Product Details

Secure, fine-grained, role-based authorization

Multi-tenant administration

Role-based authorization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In some cases, the authorization is not as fine-grained as I could wish. Some examples:

If you give somebody a right to create a table in Hive database, then this user can also drop any table in this database. It would useful to user can only drop tables that she is the owner of, similarly to what “sticky-bit” provides for HDFS.

If you give somebody writes permissions to the Solr policy file to define privileges for some Solr collection, this user can actually change privileges for any collection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that it supports impala, because that makes it more universal. Runs well and is highly organized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike that it is so close to Apache Ranger, and feel that these two programs should be synthesized to create a more effective hybrid. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Provides an integrated platform that works well with other Apache suite products to provide user authentication mechanisms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can sometimes take a long time to process requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's very simple to set up controls around providing different levels of access to employees. Definitely needed at a place where security and confidentiality are highly prioritized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

So far, I have no qualms about this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.