OpenLineage
Adopt
Foundation
Linux Foundation
Since 2020
Judgement: Adopt
The lineage-emission standard, with column-level support.
Open standard for collecting lineage metadata from data pipelines, including column-level lineage. Producers emit OpenLineage events; consumers (Marquez, catalogs, custom UIs) ingest them.
For runtime lineage details — how the pipeline actually works — OpenLineage traces are the answer, not the data contract. Use both: contracts for design, OpenLineage for execution.
At a glance
- Category
- Lineage
- Governance
- Linux Foundation
- Status
- Stable; growing integration list
- First released
- 2020
Links
Related standards
Other standards in Lineage.
- PROV — PROV — Provenance Family
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