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12 December 2013

Hue goes to Paris: HUG France

Hue: The Hadoop UI - HUG France from gethue At HUG France December

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07 December 2013

New in CDH 5.5: Simplified administration and user experience and More in Hue

CDH5.5 improves the life of the administrator with a deeper integration of Hue in Cloudera Manager and a rebase on version 3.9. The setup of Hue in High Availability mode for more stability and performances was redesigned as well as the built-in monitoring. Auditing through Cloudera Navigator is now offered for better security and reporting. A lof of optimizations and user experience bumps have been added in all Hue. Here is an overview of the main improvements:…

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05 December 2013

Hue 3.5 and its redesign are out!

Hi Big Elephant Lovers, The Hue Team is glad to release Hue 3.5! A tarball is available as well as documentation and release notes. This new version comes with many improvements (254!), for example: The look & feel and navigation bar have been redesigned DBQuery App: MySQL and PostgreSQL Query Editors New Search feature: Graphical facets Integrate external Web applications in any language Create Hive tables and load quoted CSV data Submit any Oozie jobs directly from HDFS SSO with Hue: new SAML backend Hive Query editor with HiveServer2 and Sentry Hue 3.…

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05 December 2013

Language assistant in Pig Editor with Navigator

In Hue 3.5, a new assistant was added to the Pig Editor: Navigator. Similarly to the Hive and Impala Editors, functions and Pig statements are made directly available from within the editor: Navigator is: Sorted by category Searchable Auto-completable (as well as HDFS paths and Metastore tables) So now, get started with Apache Pig!

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02 December 2013

Submit any Oozie jobs directly from HDFS

With HUE-1476, users can submit Oozie jobs directly from HDFS. Just upload your configuration or browse an existing workspace and select a workflow, coordinator or bundle. A submit button will appear and let you execute the job in one click! File Browser supports: Parameters from workflow.xml, coordinator.xml, bundle.xml Parameters from job.properties Oozie Dashboard supports: Dynamic progress and log report One click MapReduce log access Stop, Pause, Rerun buttons  Here is the workflow tutorial used in the video demo.…

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27 November 2013

Create Hive tables with headers and load quoted CSV data

Hue makes it easy to create Hive tables. With HUE-1746, Hue guesses the columns names and types (int, string, float…) directly by looking at your data. If your data starts with a header, this one will automatically be used and skipped while creating the table. Quoted CSV fields are also compatible thanks to HUE-1747. Here is the data file used: http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html  This is the SerDe for reading quoted CSV:…

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19 November 2013

New ZooKeeper Browser app!

Hello animal lovers, in Hue 3, a new application was added in order to make Apache ZooKeeper easier to use: ZooKeeper Browser.  The app is not totally new: it consists of a rebasing from Hue 1 to Hue 3 of the [ZooKeeper UI][1] made by Andrei during his Google Summer of Code 3 years ago. The main two features are: Listing of the ZooKeeper cluster stats and clients Browsing and editing of the ZNode hierarchy  ZooKeeper Browser requires the [ZooKeeper REST][2] service to be running on the same host as ZooKeeper itself.…

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11 November 2013

Hue Team Retreat: Thailand

Hue usage and community is growing tremendously and development has been particularly active, culminating with a big Hue 3. This led to a good timing for having the Hue team go celebrate and scout for some exotic inspiration! After some tough debates, Caribbean and South America were eliminated (for next time!) and the team flew around the globe and landed at Bangkok, shortly followed by the Elephant Island: Ko Chang!…

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11 November 2013

DBQuery App: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and Sqlite Query Editors

In Thailand, a brand new application that enables viewing data in MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and Sqlite has been committed. Inspired from the Beeswax application, it allows you to query a relational database and view it in a table. Example of configuration in hue.ini: [librdbms] \# The RDBMS app can have any number of databases configured in the databases \# section. A database is known by its section name \# (IE sqlite, mysql, psql, and oracle in the list below).…

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08 November 2013

Integrate external Web applications in any language

Completed in Thailand, HUE-826 brings a new way to integrate external Web application into Hue. Java apps or already existing websites can now be shown as a Hue app with little effort.    For example, let’s integrate Tableau: To create a new app: build/env/bin/hue create_proxy_app my_hue http://gethue.com tools/app_reg/app_reg.py --install my_hue --relative-paths If you want to update the url later, change it in the ini: [my_hue] url=http://gethue.com As usual feel free to comment on the hue-user list or @gethue!…

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