datahub/docs/features.md

DataHub Features

DataHub is made up of a generic backend and a Ember-based UI. Original DataHub blog post talks about the design extensively and mentions some of the features of DataHub. Our open sourcing blog post also provides a comparison of some features between LinkedIn production DataHub vs open source DataHub. Below is a list of the latest features that are available in DataHub, as well as ones that will soon become available.

Data Constructs (Entities)

Datasets

• Search: full-text & advanced search, search ranking
• Browse: browsing through a configurable hierarchy
• Schema: table & document schema in tabular and JSON format
• Coarse grain lineage: support for lineage at the dataset level, tabular & graphical visualization of downstreams/upstreams
• Ownership: surfacing owners of a dataset, viewing datasets you own
• Dataset life-cycle management: deprecate/undeprecate, surface removed datasets and tag it with "removed"
• Institutional knowledge: support for adding free form doc to any dataset
• Fine grain lineage: support for lineage at the field level [coming soon]
• Social actions: likes, follows, bookmarks [coming soon]
• Compliance management: field level tag based compliance editing [coming soon]
• Top users: frequent users of a dataset [coming soon]

Users

• Search: full-text & advanced search, search ranking
• Browse: browsing through a configurable hierarchy [coming soon]
• Profile editing: LinkedIn style professional profile editing such as summary, skills

Schemas [coming soon]

• Search: full-text & advanced search, search ranking
• Browse: browsing through a configurable hierarchy
• Schema history: view and diff historic versions of schemas
• GraphQL: visualization of GraphQL schemas

Jos/flows [coming soon]

• Search: full-text & advanced search, search ranking
• Browse: browsing through a configurable hierarchy
• Basic information:
• Execution history: Executions and their status. Link to external service for viewing full info.

Metrics [coming soon]

• search: full-text & advanced search, search ranking
• Browse: browsing through a configurable hierarchy
• Basic information: ownershp, dimensions, formula, input & output datasets, dashboards
• Institutional knowledge: support for adding free form doc to any metric

Dashboards [coming soon]

• search: full-text & advanced search, search ranking
• Basic information: ownership, location. Link to exzternal service for viewing the dashboard.
• Institutional knowledge: support for adding free form doc to any dashboards

Metadata Sources

You can integrate any data platform to DataHub easily. As long as you have a way of Extracting metadata from the platform and Transform that into our standard MCE format, you're free to Load/ingest metadata to DataHub from any available platform.

We have provided example ETL ingestion scripts for:

• Hive
• Kafka
• RDBMS (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres etc)
• LDAP