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Hue 4.3 and its Analytics and Django improvements are out!
Hi Big Data Explorers, The Hue Team is glad to thanks all the contributors and release Hue 4.3! The focus of this release was a big refresh to upgrade Django to 1.11, the latest Python 2.7...
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Additional SQL improvements in Hue 4.3
Hi SQL enthusiasts! We’ve made quite some improvements to the SQL experience in Hue 4.3, in a previous post we showed some of the new exploration improvements and now we’d like to show some additional...
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Manually configure Hue in HDP
Hello Big Data users, if you have an Ambari managed HDP cluster, here is a guide of how test the latest Hue. Note that the guide focuses on the SQL Editor and HDFS Browser only and assumes a non-secure...
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Self service Impala SQL query troubleshooting
Greetings Data Explorers! We’ve been looking for ways to help debug performance issues with your Impala queries. Let’s preface by saying that this new feature is a work in progress and we’re looking to...
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Hue in Docker
Containers offer a modern way to isolate and run applications. This post is the first one of a series showing how to run Hue as a service. Here, we will explore how to build, run and configure a Hue...
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Quick Task: How to count the documents of a user via the Shell?
How to count the documents of a user? Sometimes, it is convenient to administrate Hue directly via the command line. While investigating while http://demo.gethue.com was slow, we discovered that the...
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Querying & Exploring the Instacart dataset Part 1: Ingesting the data
Self-service exploratory analytics is one of the most common use cases of the Hue users. In this tutorial, let’s see how to get started on the analysis. We will use the free Instacart dataset and start...
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Quick Task: How to query Apache Druid analytic database
Self-service exploratory analytics is one of the most common use cases of the Hue users. While deeply integrated with Apache Impala and Apache Hive, Hue also lets you take advantage of its smart editor...
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Hue administrators can restrict the number of concurrent sessions per user. The default value is 0 to represent no restrictions. In that case, a user can have as many simultaneous Hue sessions, i.e....
View ArticleQuick Task: Fixing “ImportError: No module named google_compute_engine” when...
When building Hue on a Google Compute Engine machine, you might it this issue: ImportError: No module named google_compute_engine with this full trace: creating 'dist/kombu-4.3.0-py2.7.egg' and...
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Quick Task: Document Count Check
When Hue database has too many entries in certain tables, it will cause performance issue. Now Hue config check will help superuser to find this issue. Login as superuser and go to “Hue...
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Hue 4.4 and its improvements are out!
Hi Big Data Explorers, The Hue Team is glad to thanks all the contributors and release Hue 4.4! The focus of this release was to improve the self service SQL troubleshooting and stability. This...
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Hive on Tez integrations improvements
We’ve made some improvements when using Apache TEZ as the query engine of the SQL Editor: When running a query, the job id will now show up in the query log. Pressing the id will show the job in the...
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How to enable new user and create Hive tables on a Kerberized secure cluster...
It can be tricky to grant a new user proper permissions on a secure cluster, let’s walk through the steps to enable any new user for table creation on a kerberized cluster. Depends on your cluster...
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Documentation revamp: making Hue easier to install, use and develop
Making Hue easier to install, use and develop with a modern documentation. While all the efforts on the improving the core SQL Experience are important, not communicating clearly about it is not very...
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2x Faster page load time with the new bundling of JavaScript files
Fast page loads are notorious for providing a much nicer user experience. Who likes to wait or have a slow display of the page? In the continuous offer to render Hue snappier and at the same time...
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Improving the developer productivity with some Continuous Integration
Tooling and automation has been simplified dramatically with technologies like Docker and the Cloud. On top of this, continuous integration companies like Circle CI and Travis CI have added one more...
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Realtime catalog search with Hue and Apache Atlas
With the latest Hue (future 4.5 release), we are glad to announce that Hue integrates with Apache Atlas as backend to enable SQL users for real time data catalog searching. Previously Hue’s catalog was...
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BYOA – Build Your Own Autocompleter
Hue is a SQL Editor integrating with the most common data warehouses and databases. Getting specialized autocomplete for each language brings better code maintainability (force a decoupled design),...
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Quick Start a Hue development environment in 3 minutes with Docker
Looking at simplifying the usage of Databases and Datawarehouses or learning how to build Cloud webapps? Hue would be a great candidate for you! Typically the development is made natively but here is a...
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