---+ Falcon - Feed management and data processing platform

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.

---++ Why?

   * Establishes relationship between various data and processing elements on a Hadoop environment

   * Feed management services such as feed retention, replications across clusters, archival etc.

   * Easy to onboard new workflows/pipelines, with support for late data handling, retry policies

   * Integration with metastore/catalog such as Hive/HCatalog

   * Provide notification to end customer based on availability of feed groups
     (logical group of related feeds, which are likely to be used together)

   * Enables use cases for local processing in colo and global aggregations

   * Captures Lineage information for feeds and processes

---+ Getting Started

Start with these simple steps to install an falcon instance [[InstallationSteps][Simple setup]]. Also refer
to Falcon architecture and documentation in [[FalconDocumentation][Documentation]]. [[OnBoarding][On boarding]]
describes steps to on-board a pipeline to Falcon. It also gives a sample pipeline for reference.
[[EntitySpecification][Entity Specification]] gives complete details of all Falcon entities.

[[FalconCLI][Falcon CLI]] implements [[restapi/ResourceList][Falcon's RESTful API]] and
describes various options for the command line utility provided by Falcon.

Falcon provides OOTB [[HiveIntegration][lifecycle management for Tables in Hive (HCatalog)]]
such as table replication for BCP and table eviction. Falcon also enforces
[[Security][Security]] on protected resources and enables SSL.

#LicenseInfo
---+ Licensing Information

Falcon is distributed under [[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0][Apache License 2.0]].