EGERIA

Egeria open-source metadata interoperability standard.

Definition

Egeria offers OMRS REST API, Open Metadata Repository Cohort via Kafka, Governance Action Framework. Connectors to Apache Atlas, IBM Information Governance Catalog, Collibra, Alation. Vision: federated metadata graph across vendor solutions without lock-in.

Origin

Initiated by IBM ; donated to ODPi then LF AI Foundation 2019.

Example in context

Egeria federates metadata across Hadoop Atlas, IBM IGC mainframe and Collibra catalog at a bank.

Related terms

• Apache Atlas — reference connector.