[KNOX-817] Gateway service defintion for Avatica

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.11.0
• Assignee: Josh Elser
• Reporter: Josh Elser
• Created: 14/Dec/16 03:10
• Updated: 28/Mar/19 14:17
• Resolved: 16/Dec/16 01:06

Description

Apache Avatica, an Apache Calcite sub-project, is an HTTP-based JDBC server and corresponding JDBC driver (which uses that server). It is meant to act as a proxy to some database. Avatica is presently used by a number of projects, Apache Phoenix and Apache Drill to name two prominent ones, and has a number of community-developed drivers in languages other than Java.

As far as authentication goes, Avatica only provides authentication based on the authentication capabilities of the database. Knox is a natural fit for Avatica, specifically the centralized authentication, SSL support, and auditing are all enticing features.

With the help of Larry McCay (and https://github.com/moresandeep/knox-dev-docker), I got some service files working very quickly. Would be nice to contribute these back to enable Phoenix, Drill and others to use Knox out of the box.

Issue Links

• is related to: KNOX-920 Make avatica service use default policies
• is related to: KNOX-819 Create test for avatica gateway service definition