Use Hue

This section provides information about using Hue with MapR, but it does not duplicate the Hue documentation.

Feature Support

MapR supports most but not all of the functionality available with Hue:

Supported Not Supported

Query editors

  • Hive (for performing queries on Apache Hive)
  • Impala (for submitting interactive SQL and HiveQL queries)
  • DB Query (for viewing data in MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and Sqlite)
  • Pig (for submitting Pig scripts)
  • Job Designer (for creating and submitting MapReduce/Streaming/Java jobs)
  • Spark (beta feature for submitting Spark jobs)

Data browsers

  • Metastore Tables (for managing databases, tables, and partitions of the Hive metastore)
  • HBase browser (for creating, editing, and searching tables)
  • Sqoop Transfer (for transferring bulk data between Hadoop and various types of structured datastores)

Workflows

  • Oozie (for creating and running workflow and coordinator jobs)

File Browser (for accessing files and directories in MapR-FS)

  • Job Browser (for accessing MapReduce jobs)

  • User Admin (for adding, deleting, and managing Hue users and groups)

MapR does not support integration between Hue and the following components:

  • Sentry 1.4
  • Sentry 1.6 on a secure cluster that uses MapR-SASL authentication.
    NOTE: Sentry 1.6 on a secure cluster that uses Kerberos authentication is supported.
  • Solr Search
  • Zookeeper

You can refer also to the Hue documentation.

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