Query. Explore. Repeat.

Hue is an open source Query Tool for browsing, querying and visualizing data with focus on SQL and Search: gethue.com

It features:

• Editors for Hive, Impala, Pig, MapReduce, Spark and any SQL like MySQL, Oracle, SparkSQL, Solr SQL, Phoenix and more.
• Dashboards to dynamically interact and visualize data with Solr or SQL.
• Scheduler of jobs and workflows.
• Browsers for Jobs, HDFS, S3 files, SQL Tables, Indexes, Git files, Sentry permissions, Sqoop and more.

Getting Started

Add the development packages, build and get the development server running:

git clone https://github.com/cloudera/hue.git
cd hue
make apps
build/env/bin/hue runserver

Now Hue should be running on http://localhost:8000 !

The configuration in development mode is desktop/conf/pseudo-distributed.ini.

Docker

Start Hue in a single click with the Docker Guide or the video blog post.

Development Prerequisites

You'll need these library development packages and tools installed on your system:

Ubuntu:

• sudo apt-get install git ant gcc g++ libffi-dev libkrb5-dev libmysqlclient-dev libsasl2-dev libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev make maven libldap2-dev python-dev python-setuptools libgmp3-dev

• Oracle's JDK (read more here)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

• mvn (from maven package or maven3 tarball)
• openldap-dev / libldap2-dev
• libtidy-0.99-0 (for unit tests only)

CentOS/RHEL:

• sudo yum install ant asciidoc cyrus-sasl-devel cyrus-sasl-gssapi cyrus-sasl-plain gcc gcc-c++ krb5-devel libffi-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel make mysql mysql-devel openldap-devel python-devel sqlite-devel gmp-devel

• Oracle's JDK (read more here)

• mvn (from apache-maven package or maven3 tarball)

• libtidy (for unit tests only)

• openssl-devel (for version 7+)

MacOS:

• Xcode command line tools
• Oracle's JDK 1.7+
• maven (Homebrew)
• mysql (Homebrew)
• gmp (Homebrew)
• openssl (Homebrew)
• Required for Mac OS X 10.11+ (El Capitan), after brew install openssl, run: export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib && export CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include

Main Stack

Hue would not be possible without:

• Python 2.6.5 - 2.7
• Django 1.6 (https://docs.djangoproject.com/)
• Knockout.js (http://knockoutjs.com/)
• jQuery (http://jquery.com/)
• Bootstrap (http://getbootstrap.com/)

Community

• User group: http://groups.google.com/a/cloudera.org/group/hue-user
• Jira: https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/HUE
• Reviews: https://review.cloudera.org/dashboard/?view=to-group&group=hue (repo 'hue-rw')

License

Apache License, Version 2.0 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0