Data Steward Studio Overview
Data Steward Studio (DSS) is one of several services available for Hortonworks DataPlane Service; it provides a suite of capabilities that allows users to understand and govern data across enterprise data lakes.
The goal of the Data Steward Studio is the help data stewards across the enterprise to:
Organize and curate data globally
Organize data based on business classifications, purpose, protections needed, etc.
Promote responsible collaboration across enterprise data workers
Understand where relevant data is located
Cataloging and searching to locate relevant data of interest (sensitive data, commonly used, high risk data, etc.)
Understand how data is interpreted for use
Basic descriptions: Schema, classifications (business cataloging), encodings
Statistical models and parameters
User annotations, wrangling scripts, view definitions etc.
Understand how data is created and modified
Visualize upstream lineage and downstream impact
Understand how schema or data evolve
View and understand data supply chain (pipelines, versioning, evolution)
Understand how data access is secured/protected and audit usage
Understand who can see which data and metadata (e.g. based on business classifications) under what conditions (security policies, data protection, anonymization)
View who has accessed what data from a forensic audit/compliance perspective
Visualize access patterns and identify anomalies
For a list of features that are available in this release, see Evaluation Software Features.