Introducing Hue

Hadoop User Experience (Hue) is an open source web interface for analyzing data with Hadoop and its ecosystem components.

Hue brings together the most common Apache Hadoop components into a single web interface. Its main goal is to allow the users to use Hadoop without worrying about underlying complexity or using a command-line interface.

Getting ready

The following are the major features of Hue:

  • The file browser for HDFS
  • The job browser for MapReduce or YARN
  • Query editors for Apache Hive
  • Query editors for Apache Pig
  • The Apache Sqoop2 editor
  • The Apache ZooKeeper browser
  • The Apache HBase browser

We will focus on the Query editors for Apache Hive.

How to do it…

To run Hue, there are various steps that need to be followed. The installation of ...

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