What is Hue all about?

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Nishant Srivastava picture Nishant Srivastava · Jun 9, 2014 · Viewed 16.8k times · Source

I am new to Big Data. I want to know about Hue. All i know about Hue is that it is a web interface to manage Hadoop ecosystem. Please let me know if i can install in on my pc (Ubuntu Precise). I am running Apache Hadoop 1.2.1 in pseudo distributed mode with PIG and HIVE

Thanks in Advance

Answer

griffon vulture picture griffon vulture · Jun 9, 2014

Hue is a Web interface for analyzing data with Apache Hadoop. You can install it in any pc with any hadoop version.

Hue is a suite of applications that provide web-based access to CDH components and a platform for building custom applications.

The following figure illustrates how Hue works. Hue Server is a "container" web application that sits in between your CDH installation and the browser. It hosts the Hue applications and communicates with various servers that interface with CDH components.

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here you have all the explanations about hue and downloads:

http://gethue.com/

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