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Kerberos security and Sentry authorization for Solr Search App
This blog post details how to use Kerberos and Sentry in the Hue Search Application. If you only want to use Kerberos, just skip the paragraphs about Sentry. Kerberos enables you to authenticate...
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Hive and Impala queries life cycle
Hue is used quite a lot for its Hive and Impala SQL editors: But what happens to the query results? How long are they kept? Why do they disappear sometimes? Why are some Impala queries are still “in...
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SSL Encryption between Hue and Hive
This blog post was originally published on the MapR blog. While big data security analytics promises to deliver great insights in the battle against cyber threats, the concept and the tools are still...
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How to configure Hue for your Hadoop cluster
Hue is a lightweight Web server that lets you use Hadoop directly from your browser. Hue is just a ‘view on top of any Hadoop distribution’ and can be installed on any machine. There are multiples ways...
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If after installing your cluster and submitting some Oozie jobs you are seeing this type of error: Error: java.io.IOException: Split class...
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Apache Sentry made easy with the new Hue Security App
Hi Hadoop Sheriffs, In order to support the growth of the Apache Sentry project and make it easier to secure your cluster, a new app was added into Hue. Sentry privileges determine which Hive / Impala...
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File Browser Enhancements: HDFS operations made easy
A lot of exciting work has been done on File Browser to provide additional features and the best user experience possible. Take a look at the updates below and start using them today! Drag and Drop...
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Search App Enhancements: Explore even more Data
Hi Big Data Explorers, Hue Search dashboards introduced new ways to quickly explore a lot of data by drag & dropping some graphical widgets and leveraging Solr capabilities. The application...
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Improved Oozie Dashboard: Bulk manipulate your Jobs
Hue Oozie Dashboard just got a few improvements in order to make Oozie job management less tedious! Here is a video demo that sums them up: Main new Dashboard features Faster page display Bulk...
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Hue 3.7 with Sentry App and new Search widgets is out!
Hi Big Data Surfers, The Hue Team is glad to release Hue 3.7 and its new Sentry App and improved Search App! A tarball is available as well as documentation and release notes. Packages will be released...
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Team Retreat in Tenerife
¡Hola! The Hue project recently got its biggest release. It was once again time to celebreate and also prepare the next big thing For the first time, a European location was picked: Tenerife, in the...
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Solr Lucene Revolution DC 14 Presentation: Interactively Search and Visualize...
Interactively Search and Visualize Your Big Data Presented by Romain Rigaux, Cloudera Open up your user base to the data! Contrary to programming and SQL, almost everybody knows how to search. This...
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Updated SAML 2.0 Support
Hue has been shipping SAML 2.0 authentication for quite some time. SAML 2.0 is an alternative to LDAP which lets you provide single sign on (SSO) in your company so that users can use the same...
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Hadoop YARN: 1/1 local-dirs are bad:...
If you are getting this error, make some disk space! 1/1 local-dirs are bad: /var/lib/hadoop-yarn/cache/yarn/nm-local-dir; 1/1 log-dirs are bad: /var/log/hadoop-yarn/containers Node Manager logs...
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How to use HCatalog with Pig in a secured cluster
In Hue 3.0 we made transparent the use of HCatalog in the Pig scripts. Today, we are going to detail how to run Pig script with HCatalog in some secured cluster. The process is somehow still...
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How to run Hue with the Apache Server
Hue ships out of the box with the HTTP server CherryPy, but some users have expressed interest having Apache HTTP 2 serve Hue with mod_wsgi. Their motivation is that they are more familiar with Apache...
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How to use Hue with Hive and Impala configured with LDAP authentication and SSL
We previously showed in detail how to use SSL encryption with the Impala or Hive Editors. Here is now a step by step guide about how to use LDAP authentication instead of no authentication or Kerberos....
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Team retreat in Nicaragua and Belize
¡Hola!, Hello! After a last escape in Europe, the Hue team went for some more exotic locations: Nicaragua & Belize! After some “rough” driving from Managua to the coast, the team enjoyed some...
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How to deploy Hue on HDP
Guest post from Andrew that we regularly update (Dec 19th 2014) I decided to deploy Hue 3.7, from tarballs (note, other sources like packages from the ‘Install’ menu above would work too), on HDP 2.2...
View ArticleBig Data Spain 2014: Big Data Web applications for Interactive Hadoop
Big Data Web applications for Interactive Hadoop Presented by Enrico Berti This talk describes how open source Hue was built in order to provide a better Hadoop User Experience. The underlying...
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