19 December 2016

Hello Hue admin, Recently we have added many security options in Hue. This document describes some of the fixes and enables Hue administrators to enforce and manage secure Hue installation. Hue security improvements, part 1 is here: Fixed sessionid and csrftoken with http only flag If the HttpOnly flag is included in HTTP response header, then the cookie cannot be accessed through client side script and thus browser will not reveal the cookie to any third party.…

29 October 2016

Sveiki! After the sun and “ethical” food of Portland, the team headed for a chilly & pretty Riga, Latvia. There, among a very walk-able city, excellent food and craft beers, history and excellent restaurants the team pushed through the midway of the next Hue 3.12 release that should land at this end of the year! Onwards! Hue Team    

22 September 2016

Hello HUE admin, Recently we have added many security options in HUE. These are turned on by default when possible. This document describes some of the fixes and enables Hue administrators to enforce and manage secure HUE installation. Whenever a browser requests a page from a HUE web server, HUE responds with the content along with HTTP Response Headers. Some of these headers contain content meta data such as the content-encoding, cache-control, status error codes, etc.…

26 August 2016

Greetings SQL experts! To make your SQL editing experience better we've created a brand new autocompleter for Hue 3.11. The old one had some limitations and was only aware of parts of the statement being edited. The new autocompleter knows all the ins and outs of the Hive and Impala SQL dialects and will suggest keywords, functions, columns, tables, databases, etc. based on the structure of the statement and the position of the cursor.…

26 August 2016

Aloha Big Questions Askers! The SQL Editor in Hue 3.11 brings a completely re-written result grid that improves the performances allowing big tables to be displayed without the browser to crash, plus some nifty tools for you. You can now lock some rows: this will help you compare data with other rows. When you hover a row id, you get a new lock icon. If you click on it, the row automatically sticks to the top of the table.…

25 August 2016

We’re very excited to officially introduce Amazon S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) integration in Hue with Hue’s 3.11 release. Hue can be setup to read and write to a configured S3 account, and users can directly query from and save data to S3 without any intermediate moving/copying to HDFS. S3 Configuration in Hue Hue’s filebrowser can now allow users to explore, manage, and upload data in an S3 account, in addition to HDFS.…

24 August 2016

Hi Big Data Adventurers,  The Hue Team is glad to thanks all the contributors and release Hue 3.11!  The focus was on the integration with Amazon Cloud Service and improving the SQL user experience. More than 700 commits on top of 3.10 went in! Go grab the tarball release and give it a spin! Download Here is a list of the main improvements. For all the changes, check out the release notes.…

23 August 2016

How to run Spark jobs with Spark on YARN? This often requires trial and error in order to make it work. Hue is leveraging Apache Oozie to submit the jobs. It focuses on the yarn-client mode, as Oozie is already running the spark-summit command in a MapReduce2 task in the cluster. You can read more about the Spark modes here. Here is how to get started successfully: PySpark Simple script with no dependency.…

22 August 2016

Creating Solr Collections from Data files in a few clicks There are exciting new features coming in Hue 3.11 week and later in CDH 5.9 this Fall. One of which is Hue’s brand new tool to create Apache Solr Collections from file data. Hue’s Solr dashboards are great for visualizing and learning more about your data so being able to easily load data into Solr collections can be really useful.…

16 August 2016

Hello! After a last retreat in Bloemendaal and a stint in Las Vegas, the team went for a few days on the West coast of the USA: Portland! There, from a patio in the sun, surrounded by green, craft beers and “ethical” food, the team put the last touch of the upcoming Hue 3.11!  Onwards! Hue Team