Definition:
HUE is an open-source SQL Cloud Editor, licensed under the Apache v2 license. It is a set of software applications designed to serve web-based accessibility to CDH components and a platform for building custom software applications.
Features:
HUE is an open source SQL Cloud Editor for browsing, querying and visualizing data. Its goal is to make self-service data querying more widespread in organizations.
Applications:
- Editors for any SQL languages like Hive, Impala, MySQL, Solr, Oracle, SparkSQL, Solr SQL, Phoenix... and jobs like Pig, MapReduce, Spark...
- Dashboards to dynamically interact and visualize data.
- The process of the scheduling of jobs and workflows is managed by HUE.
- Browsers for Jobs, HDFS, S3 files, SQL Tables, Indexes, Git files, Sentry permissions, Sqoop and more.
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