Is there an easy way to use Hadoop other than with the command line?
Which tools are you using and which one is the best?
Hue is pretty cool, new features are regularly pushed out and it's open source.
From its website: Hue features a File Browser for HDFS, a Job Designer/Browser for MapReduce, query editors for Hive, Pig, Cloudera Impala and Solr Search. It also ships with an Oozie Application for creating workflows, various Shells and a collection of Hadoop API.