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<h2>Falcon - Feed management and data processing platform<a name="Falcon_-_Feed_management_and_data_processing_platform"></a></h2>
<p>Falcon is a feed processing and feed management system aimed at making it easier for end consumers to onboard their feed processing and feed management on hadoop clusters.</p></div>
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<h3>Why?<a name="Why"></a></h3>
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<li>Establishes relationship between various data and processing elements on a Hadoop environment</li></ul>
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<li>Feed management services such as feed retention, replications across clusters, archival etc.</li></ul>
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<li>Easy to onboard new workflows/pipelines, with support for late data handling, retry policies</li></ul>
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<li>Integration with metastore/catalog such as Hive/HCatalog</li></ul>
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<li>Provide notification to end customer based on availability of feed groups</li></ul>(logical group of related feeds, which are likely to be used together)
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<li>Enables use cases for local processing in colo and global aggregations</li></ul>
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<li>Captures Lineage information for feeds and processes</li></ul></div>
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<h2>Getting Started<a name="Getting_Started"></a></h2>
<p>Start with these simple steps to install an falcon instance <a href="./InstallationSteps.html">Simple setup</a>. Also refer to Falcon architecture and documentation in <a href="./FalconDocumentation.html">Documentation</a>. <a href="./OnBoarding.html">On boarding</a> describes steps to on-board a pipeline to Falcon. It also gives a sample pipeline for reference. <a href="./EntitySpecification.html">Entity Specification</a> gives complete details of all Falcon entities.</p>
<p><a href="./Falconcli/FalconCLI.html">Falcon CLI</a> implements <a href="./Restapi/ResourceList.html">Falcon's RESTful API</a> and describes various options for the command line utility provided by Falcon.</p>
<p>Falcon provides OOTB <a href="./HiveIntegration.html">lifecycle management for Tables in Hive (HCatalog)</a> such as table replication for BCP and table eviction. Falcon also enforces <a href="./Security.html">Security</a> on protected resources and enables SSL.</p>
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<p>Falcon is distributed under <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">Apache License 2.0</a>.</p></div>
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