Apache Ranger

Apache Ranger is a framework to enable, monitor, and manage comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform. It provides centralized security administration for fine-grained authorization policies across Hadoop ecosystem components.

Apache Ranger publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Audit API, Groups API, Policies API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Access Control, Authorization, Hadoop, Policy Management, and Security.

The Apache Ranger catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Apache Ranger’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, and 7 more developer resources.

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35.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 29/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

5 APIs 7 Features 4 Use Cases

Access ControlAuthorizationHadoopPolicy ManagementSecurityApacheOpen-Source

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 35.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 13.3 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 17

Access Clarity 2.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 11

Contract Governance 2.6 / 10

Discoverability 5.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.2 / 15

Agent readiness — 29/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Insurance regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Apache Ranger Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Apache Ranger Finops

FINOPS

Features 7

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Centralized Policy Management

Manage security policies for all Hadoop services from a single interface

Fine-Grained Access Control

Column-level, row-level, and data masking policies for Hive and HBase

Attribute-Based Access Control

Context-aware policies based on user attributes and tag classifications

Audit Logging

Comprehensive audit trail of all resource access events

Multi-Service Support

Supports HDFS, Hive, HBase, Kafka, Storm, Solr, Kudu, and more

LDAP/AD Integration

Sync users and groups from Active Directory or LDAP

Security Zones

Delegate policy administration with security zones

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JSON Schema 13

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

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JSON Structure 13

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

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Examples 13

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Use Cases 4

What developers build with this provider.

Data Lake Security

Enforce column and row-level security on Hadoop data lake

Regulatory Compliance

Meet GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX requirements with audit logs and masking

Multi-Tenant Authorization

Isolate access between teams and business units

Kafka Topic Authorization

Control which applications can produce and consume Kafka topics

Integrations 5

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Apache Hadoop

Native HDFS and YARN authorization integration

Apache Hive

Column-level and row-level security for Hive queries

Apache HBase

Table and column family security for HBase

Apache Kafka

Topic-level authorization for Kafka producers and consumers

Apache Atlas

Tag-based policies using Atlas data classifications

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

SpectralRules

SpectralRules

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

JSONLD

JSONLD

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Source (apis.yml)

aid: apache-ranger
name: Apache Ranger
description: Apache Ranger is a framework to enable, monitor, and manage comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.
  It provides centralized security administration for fine-grained authorization policies across Hadoop ecosystem components.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/apache-ranger.png
tags:
- Access Control
- Authorization
- Hadoop
- Policy Management
- Security
- Apache
- Open-Source
tags_raw:
- Access Control
- Authorization
- Hadoop
- Policy Management
- Security
- Apache
- Open Source
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-05-19'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/apache-ranger/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: apache-ranger:apache-ranger-audit-api
  name: Apache Ranger Audit API
  description: The Audit API from Apache Ranger — 1 operation(s) for audit.
  humanURL: https://ranger.apache.org/apidocs/index.html
  tags:
  - Audit
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/apache-ranger-audit-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ranger.apache.org/apidocs/index.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ranger.apache.org/
- aid: apache-ranger:apache-ranger-groups-api
  name: Apache Ranger Groups API
  description: The Groups API from Apache Ranger — 1 operation(s) for groups.
  humanURL: https://ranger.apache.org/apidocs/index.html
  tags:
  - Group
  tags_raw:
  - Groups
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/apache-ranger-groups-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ranger.apache.org/apidocs/index.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ranger.apache.org/
- aid: apache-ranger:apache-ranger-policies-api
  name: Apache Ranger Policies API
  description: The Policies API from Apache Ranger — 2 operation(s) for policies.
  humanURL: https://ranger.apache.org/apidocs/index.html
  tags:
  - Policies
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/apache-ranger-policies-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ranger.apache.org/apidocs/index.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ranger.apache.org/
- aid: apache-ranger:apache-ranger-services-api
  name: Apache Ranger Services API
  description: The Services API from Apache Ranger — 2 operation(s) for services.
  humanURL: https://ranger.apache.org/apidocs/index.html
  tags:
  - Services
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/apache-ranger-services-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ranger.apache.org/apidocs/index.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ranger.apache.org/
- aid: apache-ranger:apache-ranger-users-api
  name: Apache Ranger Users API
  description: The Users API from Apache Ranger — 1 operation(s) for users.
  humanURL: https://ranger.apache.org/apidocs/index.html
  tags:
  - User
  tags_raw:
  - Users
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/apache-ranger-users-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ranger.apache.org/apidocs/index.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ranger.apache.org/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: info@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/apache-ranger-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/apache-ranger-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/apache-ranger-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/apache-ranger-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/apache/ranger
- type: Documentation
  url: https://ranger.apache.org/
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/apache-ranger-spectral-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/apache-ranger-vocabulary.yaml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/apache-ranger-context.jsonld
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: Centralized Policy Management
    description: Manage security policies for all Hadoop services from a single interface
  - name: Fine-Grained Access Control
    description: Column-level, row-level, and data masking policies for Hive and HBase
  - name: Attribute-Based Access Control
    description: Context-aware policies based on user attributes and tag classifications
  - name: Audit Logging
    description: Comprehensive audit trail of all resource access events
  - name: Multi-Service Support
    description: Supports HDFS, Hive, HBase, Kafka, Storm, Solr, Kudu, and more
  - name: LDAP/AD Integration
    description: Sync users and groups from Active Directory or LDAP
  - name: Security Zones
    description: Delegate policy administration with security zones
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: Data Lake Security
    description: Enforce column and row-level security on Hadoop data lake
  - name: Regulatory Compliance
    description: Meet GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX requirements with audit logs and masking
  - name: Multi-Tenant Authorization
    description: Isolate access between teams and business units
  - name: Kafka Topic Authorization
    description: Control which applications can produce and consume Kafka topics
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: Apache Hadoop
    description: Native HDFS and YARN authorization integration
  - name: Apache Hive
    description: Column-level and row-level security for Hive queries
  - name: Apache HBase
    description: Table and column family security for HBase
  - name: Apache Kafka
    description: Topic-level authorization for Kafka producers and consumers
  - name: Apache Atlas
    description: Tag-based policies using Atlas data classifications

Apache Ranger

APIs 5

Open Collections 6

Pricing Plans 1

Rate Limits 1

FinOps 1

Features 7

Centralized Policy Management

Fine-Grained Access Control

Attribute-Based Access Control

Audit Logging

Multi-Service Support

LDAP/AD Integration

Security Zones

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Spectral Rules 2

JSON Schema 13

JSON Structure 13

Examples 13

Security Posture 3

Agentic Access 1

Use Cases 4

Data Lake Security

Regulatory Compliance

Multi-Tenant Authorization

Kafka Topic Authorization

Integrations 5

Apache Hadoop

Apache Hive

Apache HBase

Apache Kafka

Apache Atlas

Documentation 1

Agent Surfaces 1

Design & Contract 3

Build 1

Access & Security 3

Source (apis.yml)