OpenMetadata/docs/roadmap.md

Roadmap

Here is the OpenMetadata Roadmap for the next 3 releases.

We are doing a monthly release and we are going to evolve fast and adapt to community needs. Below roadmap is subject to change based on community needs and feedback. our roadmap yet, please file an Issue Github or ping us on Slack

If you would like to prioritize any feature or would like to add a new feature that is not in our roadmap yet, please file an Issue on Github or ping us on Slack.

0.4 Release - Sep 20th, 2021

Theme: Topics, Dashboards, and Data Profiler

Support for Kafka (and Pulsar WIP)

• Support for Message Service and Topic entities in schemas, APIs, and UI
• Kafka connector and ingestion support for Confluent Schema Registry

Support for Dashboards

• Support for Dashboard services, Dashboards, and Charts entities in schemas, APIs, and UI
• Looker, Superset, Tableau connector, and ingestion support

User Interface

• Sort search results based on Usage, Relevance, and Last updated time
• Search string highlighted in search results
• Support for Kafka and Dashboards from Looker, SuperSet, and Tableau

Other features

• Pluggable SSO integration - Auth0 support
• Support for Presto

Work in progress

• Salesforce CRM connector
• Data profiler to profile tables in ingestion framework and show it table details page

0.5 Release - Oct 19th, 2021

Theme: Data quality and Lineage

Support for Lineage

• Lineage related schemas and APIs
• Lineage metadata integration from AirFlow for tables
• UI changes to show lineage information to the users

Data Reliability

• Improvements to Data Profiler
• UI integration with Data Profiler to show how the table profile looks over the period of time

Complex Types

• Support complex types such as Struct, Array with nested fields
• UI support to add expand complex types and tag , add description for nested fields

Connectors

• Trino
• Redash

Other features

• Pipeline Entities are supported
• Integration with Airflow to extract Pipeline details

0.6 Release - Nov 17th, 2021

Theme: Metadata Versioning & Eventing

Metadata Versioning and Eventing Framework

• Capture changes to Entity Metadata from source and user interactions as versions
• Versioned changes will be published as events for clients to consume to take actions on

Data Reliability

• Improvements to Data Reliablity library
• Capture custom measurements through user provided SQL

Airflow APIs

• Airflow APIs to deploy DAGS and manage them
• UI integration to deploy ingestion workflows

Connectors

• AWS Glue
• DBT
• MariaDB

0.7 Release - Dec 15th, 2021

Theme: Data Collaboration - Activity Feeds,

UI - Activity Feed, Improved UX for Search

• Users will have access to Activity Feed of all the changes to the Metadata
• New and Improved UX for Search and Landing page

Support for Table Location

• Extract Location information from Glue, Redshift
• Show Location details on the Table Page

Elastic Search - Improvements

• Support SSL (including self-signed certs) enabled ElasticSearch
• New entities will be indexed into ElasticSearch directly

Connectors

• Metabase
• Apache Druid
• Glue Improvements
• MSSQL - SSL support
• Apache Atlas Import connector
• Amundsen Import connector

Other features

• Metadata Change Event integration into Slack and framework for integration into other services such as Kafka or other Notification frameworks
• Delta Lake support, Databricks, Iceberg

0.8 Release - Jan 22nd, 2022

Data Quality

• Data Quality Tests support with Json Schemas and APIs
• UI Integration to enable user to write tests and run them on Airflow
• Store the test results and provide notifications via eventing apis
• Provide integration of DBT tests into OpenMetadata

Access Control Policies

• Design of Access Control Policies
• Provide Role based access control with community feedback

Eventing Webhook

• Register webhooks to get metadata event notifications
• Metadata Change Event integration into Slack and framework for integration into other services such as Kafka or other Notification frameworks

Connectors

• Delta Lake
• Iceberg
• PowerBI
• Azure SQL

0.9 Release - Feb 26th, 2022

Data Quality

• Allow users to create their own semantic tests to test the quality of data
• Support quality for more databases

DBT

• Capture Tests and Statistics
• Ownership

Lineage

• Attribute propagation such as Tags, Tier etc.
• Provide versioning support for lineage
• Add more components into the lineage
• Spark Lineage support
• Column level lineage API support

Pipeline

• Capture pipeline status as it happens
• Bring in more data quality controls based on pipeline status

Collaboration

• Conversations in the main feed
• Users can ask each other questions, add suggestions and replies
• Turn some of the threads into tasks and provide it in MyData as number of tasks
• Glossary
• Table details - Click through on usage to see who or what services are using it, what queries are pulling from it.

Security

• Security policies through the UI
• Configuration personas and authorization based on policies

1.0

Data culture / Data quality

• Tier suggestion
• Data dashboard/Insights
  • Suggested tiers, created, deleted last week, descriptions added, ownership with/without number

ML Features/ML

• Models UI
• ML Service

Collaboration

• Tag suggest/accept/approve
• Expiry time
• Remind me later
• Data deleting report

DBT

• Capture Lineage

1.1

User feedback

• Tiering report & nudges
• Badges
• Top datasets as positive feedback

Freshness/completeness workflows and metadata

• SLA

Collaboration

• Feature requests for datasets

Integration

• Alation integration to fetch metadata

1.2

Lineage

• Search for a column and show the entire DAG from origin to see how that column/table is generated
• Lineage-based freshness and debugging

1.3

Lineage

• Lineage based description, tag, attribute propagation
• Kafka lineage from services
• Periodic Reviews - Such as Tag Review
• Cost Analysis