I have installed HDP 2.5 and Atlas 0.7.0.2.5 and I don't need HBase to use Atlas. Currently I'm using Solr (Ambari Infra) as the index engine and Berkeleyje as the storage engine. The real dependency between Atlas and HBase is the AuditRepository, by default use HBase. Is not easy change it, but investigating the source code I found a special property atlas.EntityAuditRepository.impl that you have to set with the value org.apache.atlas.repository.audit.InMemoryEntityAuditRepository (is case sensitive, so copy&paste exactly the name of the property and the value). @Chad Woodhedad, add the above property as the screenshot shows, restart Atlas services and you will have it, Atlas without HBase 🙂 And now some details about how I found that property: In this link from GitHub you can see why Atlas by default needs HBase. And in this link from GitHub you can find the available values that you can use for configure the audit. Don't worry about the rest of the properties related with HBase. Atlas will use the value of atlas.graph.storage.hbase.table to create the table in the storage backend that you choose (Berkeleyje or Cassandra). With these properties my Atlas services work very well. I hope this information is helpful and work for you to avoid install HBase in your clusters.
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