Hue (http://gethue.com/) is short for Hadoop User Experience. It is a web interface for making the Hadoop ecosystem easier to use. For Hive users, it offers a unified web interface for easily accessing both HDFS and Hive in an interactive environment. Hue is installed in CDH by default, and it can also be installed in other Hadoop distributions. In addition, Hue adds more programming-friendly features to Hive, such as:
- Highlights HQL keywords
- Autocompletes HQL queries
- Offers live progress and logs for Hive and MapReduce jobs
- Submits several queries and checks progress later
- Browses data in Hive tables through a web-user interface
- Navigates through the metadata
- Registers UDF and adds files/archives through a web-user interface
- Saves, exports, and shares query results
- Creates various charts from query results
The following is a screenshot of the Hive editor...