20 August 2015

Apache Solr is getting easier to use! This new version of the Search app provides a general improved dashboard experience by refreshing only the widgets that changed and integrating better with live indexing. A series of additional new functionalities are detailed below. See it all in action in the video demo and the Bike Data analysis with Analytics Facets widgets and Real time indexing of Tweet with Spark Streaming posts!…

19 August 2015

Interactively Search and Visualize Your Big Data: Solr SF Meetup Open up your user base to the data! Contrary to programming and SQL, almost everybody knows how to search. This talk describes through an interactive demo based on open source Hue how users can graphically search their data in Hadoop. The underlying technical details of the application and its interaction with Apache Solr will be clarified. The session will detail how to get started with data indexing in just a few clicks as well as explore several data analysis scenarios with the latest Solr Analytics Facets and Spark Streaming.…

19 August 2015

Interactive Spark in your Browser - Scala by the Bay Supporting running Spark scripts directly from a browser would bring the user experience up. Indeed, everybody has a Web navigator, the command line can be avoided, built-in graphing and visualization make it easy to explore and understand data with just a few clicks. This also simplifies the administration as now everything becomes centralized in a service and is accessible by non native clients.…

11 August 2015

Hello Oozie users, Hue 3.9 release comes with several improvements for Oozie dashboard making it more robust and scalable. Here is a video demoing the new features: The new feature list: Paginate all the Workflow / Coordinator / Bundle dashboard lists. Now you can see them all and filter by status. Paginate all the Coordinator actions. Moved Coordinator action filters to backend. This will result in more accurate filtering and easy navigation across all actions.…

07 August 2015

In the upcoming Hue 3.9 release, Hue will support the ability to configure multiple authentication backends. Hue already allows you to authenticate with several authentication services including LDAP, OpenID, SAML, database, etc. With this latest feature, you can now configure multiple authentication sources for Hue to check, in order of priority, when authenticating and authorizing users. For example, to enable Hue to first attempt LDAP directory lookup before falling back to the database-backed user model, we can update the hue.…

05 August 2015

Until now Hue did not have a good way to backup or transfer workflows between servers. A command was added in Hue 3.8 but its usage was still advanced. In Hue 3.9, the command is directly integrated in the UI.   Note that this export/import interface will be generic in Hue 4 and will support any document or script like Hive, Pig. In addition to exporting the Hue json document, sql or workflow.…

30 July 2015

With the latest Hue release, the metastore offers better controls over partitioned Hive tables. Partitioning Hive tables is a great strategy to improve query performance for Hive-managed tables by avoiding full-table scans. However, partitioning is also useful for external tables where the data may already reside in HDFS or be managed by a service other than Hive. In these cases, the partition location may not conform to the default dynamic Hive partition location (which takes the table's base location and appends a name=value path token for each partition), and can take any valid data path as the location for the partition.…

27 July 2015

The Search app in Hue is getting better and better! On the next Hue release (or already on Github's master) you will be able to add additional functions to Hue's version of Mustache so you call functions directly in the HTML display. Let's see how to use it! In our example we add a dashboard using the Yelp Demo data with an HTML result widget, like this We want to create a couple of functions to make our results prettier: a graphical star rating and a static Google Map of the restaurant per each review that we have.…

25 July 2015

Cloudera Enterprise 5.8 brings the latest Hue 3.10, the Web UI that makes Hadoop easier to use.  The focus on performances on the user experience continues from C5.7, with a revamped SQL Editor that will make you productive with Hive and Impala queries. This new version is also available for a quick try in one click on demo.gethue.com! Here is a description of the main improvements. New SQL Editor Hue now has a generic editor that supports any languages but currently focuses on SQL.…

09 July 2015

This post was originally published on the IBM blog HUE on IBM BigInsights 4.0 to explore Big Data by Vinayak Agrawal / @vinayak_agr. For Hue 3.9 and BigInsights 4.1 have a look to https://developer.ibm.com/hadoop/blog/2015/10/27/how-to-install-hue-3-9-on-top-of-biginsights-4-1/   Task This article will walk you through the steps required to deploy/setup HUE on IBM BigInsights version 4.0 and above. Introduction HUE or Hadoop User Experience is a Web interface for analyzing data with Apache Hadoop.…