Hue Features

This Hue Tutorial will describe features of Cloudera Hue

Cloudera Hue is a web based UI for hadoop. It was started as Cloudera Desktop later named to hue. Hue provides following features:

• Beeswax
• File Browser
• Job Designer
• Job Browser
• User Admin

Beeswax:

• Beeswax is basically Hive UI
• It Provides following features: Create Hive tables; Load data; Run and Manage Hive queries and Download results in Excel format

File Browser:

• It is basically browser for distributed file system
• It Provides following features: Browse HDFS; Change permissions and ownership; upload, download, view and edit files

Job Designer:

• We can design MapReduce jobs, which can be templates that prompt for parameters when they are submitted.

1. Streaming: To create Map/Reduce functions in any non-Java language
2. Jars: To create Map/Reduce job in java language
3. Install samples: To run samples which are already installed

Job Browser:

• Job Browser provides all the information about jobs submitted like their state(run/complete/fail), user, submission time, completion time etc
• It provides following features: View jobs; Tasks; Counters; Logs, etc.
• This feature is quit similar to job tracker UI given by hadoop

User Admin:

• Account management for HUE users
• Create and delete users, and update their passwords and e-mail addresses.