Hadoop User Experience (Hue) is an open source web interface for analyzing data with Hadoop and its ecosystem components.
Hue brings together the most common Apache Hadoop components into a single web interface. Its main goal is to allow the users to use Hadoop without worrying about underlying complexity or using a command-line interface.
The following are the major features of Hue:
The file browser for HDFS
The job browser for MapReduce or YARN
Query editors for Apache Hive
Query editors for Apache Pig
The Apache Sqoop2 editor
The Apache ZooKeeper browser
The Apache HBase browser
We will focus on the Query editors for Apache Hive.
To run Hue, there are various steps that need to be followed. The installation of Hue might seem a little complex, but once Hue is set up, it will ease up the running Hive queries through the web interface without using terminal screens.