Egeria

What Egeria is

Egeria is an open-source project for sharing metadata and context across people, tools, and platforms used in AI and data science. It defines an open metadata schema with more than 600 types for describing an enterprise’s digital business. Specialist servers can capture, analyze, search, and manage metadata, as well as extract, store, and synchronize information across technologies. Egeria supports exchanging, linking, and federating metadata across different repositories, and its frameworks can be extended with custom types, variations, and systems. Listed capabilities include integrated cataloguing, lineage management, metadata discovery, metadata security, and synchronized access control. Discovery functions cover schema extraction, resource profiling, and data class, grain, semantic, and classification discovery. Its connector catalog includes integration, repository, runtime, security, and REST client connectors. Documented content packs cover technologies such as PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Db2, DuckDB, Unity Catalog, Apache Atlas, and Apache Kafka. The project provides several interfaces, including Egeria Explorer and Lineage Explorer, and supports standalone use or deployment in Docker and Kubernetes environments.