This document discusses Hue, a web interface designed to simplify the use of Hadoop and its components, including HBase. It highlights Hue's development history, features such as a flexible search bar, and its growing community, alongside addressing challenges faced by HBase. Additionally, it mentions the availability of Hue through Cloudera's platform and encourages user engagement and feedback.

1. HBASE + HUE
THE UI FOR
APACHE HADOOP
Abraham Elmahrek
LA HBase User Group - Dec 12, 2013
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2. WHAT
IS HUE?
WEB INTERFACE FOR MAKING
HADOOP EASIER TO USE
Suite
of
apps
for
each
Hadoop
component,
like
Hive,
Pig,
Impala,
Oozie,
Solr,
Sqoop2,
HBase...
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3. VIEW FROM
30K FEET
Hadoop
Web Server
You and even
that friend
that uses IE9 ;)
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5. TARGET
OF HUE
GETTING STARTED WITH HADOOP
BEING PRODUCTIVE EXPLORING
DIFFERENT ANGLES OF THE PLATFORM
LET ANY USER FOCUS ON BIG DATA
PROCESSING
BEING COMPATIBLE WITH ANY HADOOP
VERSION (0.20/1.2.0/2.3.0)
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6. OPEN SOURCE
2560+ COMMITS
31 CONTRIBUTORS
477 STARS
157 FORKS
github.com/cloudera/hue
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7. THE CORE
TEAM PLAYERS
ABRAHAM ELMAHREK
ROMAIN RIGAUX
ENRICO BERTI
CHANG BEER
team.gethue.com
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8. GROWING
COMMUNITY
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
500
0
Oct
Nov
17.5
0
Sep
35
125
Aug
52.5
250
Jul
70
375
Jun
Posts
Topics
hue-­‐user@
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9. HISTORY
HUE 1
Desktop-­‐like
in
a
browser,
did
its
job
but
preGy
slow,
memory
leaks
and
not
very
IE
friendly
but
definitely
advanced
for
its
Kme
(2009-­‐2010).
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10. HISTORY
HUE 2
The
first
flat
structure
port,
with
TwiGer
Bootstrap
all
over
the
place.
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11. HISTORY
HUE 2.5
New
apps,
improved
the
UX
adding
new
nice
funcKonaliKes
like
autocomplete
and
drag
&
drop.
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12. HISTORY
HUE 3 ALPHA
Proposed
design,
didn’t
make
it.
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13. HISTORY
HUE 3
TransiKon
to
the
new
UI,
major
improvements
and
new
apps.
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14. HISTORY
HUE 3.5
Where
we
are
now,
new
UI,
several
new
apps,
the
most
user
friendly
features
to
date.
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15. BIG DATA MEANS HARDER SEARCH PROBLEMS.
HBASE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT WOES.
UNDERSTANDING DATA BETTER.
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16. HBASE BROWSER
PROBLEMS
LACK OF ACCESSIBILITY
LACK OF FAMILIARITY
USABILITY CHALLENGES
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17. HBASE BROWSER
DESIGN CHALLENGES
PROBLEM
HBase
is
a
key-­‐value
store,
not
a
tradiKonal
RDB
SOLUTION
Collapse
Sparse
Data
across
HBase
Tables
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18. HBASE BROWSER
FLEXIBLE SEARCH BAR
PROBLEM
Need
high-­‐level
tool
for
complex
data
fetching
&
analysis
SOLUTION
Simple
custom
query
language
Supports
HBase
filter
language
Supports
selecKon
&
Copy
+
Paste,
gracefully
degrades
in
IE
Autocomplete
Help
Menu
Row$Key$ Prefix$Scan$
Scan$Length$
Thri=$Filterstring$
Column/Family$Filters$
Searchbar(Syntax(Breakdown(
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19. HBASE BROWSER
DOES IT SCALE?
PROBLEM
Performance
on
Millions
of
Columns
SOLUTION
Lazy
loading
&
TruncaKon
using
Thri`
FilterString
Stream
raw
data
cached
MEM
>
DOM
elements
dynamically
generated
b64encode
binary
data
to
preserve
during
ASCII
dump
Detect
schema
on
preview
reading
byte
headers
Capped,
Lazy
Loaded
&
Bound
to
DOM
via
MVVM
PaGern
IT DOES.
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20. ZOOKEEPER BROWSER
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Communicate
with
Contrib.
REST
API
View
Node
Stats
View
and
Edit
Node
Data
And
and
Remove
ZNodes
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21. QUERY HBASE
WITH HIVE
HIVE EDITOR
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22. QUERY HBASE
WITH PIG
PIG EDITOR
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23. INDEX HBASE
AND SEARCH IT
HUE
LILY INDEXER
CLOUDERA SEARCH
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24. DEMO
TIME
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25. MISSED
SOMETHING?
learn.gethue.com
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26. WHAT’S MISSING?
SECURITY
Kerberos
SSL
HBASE-­‐8818
Thri`
V2
Please!
STARGATE?
Use
of
Thri`
interface
over
REST
interface
for
HBase
Browser
ANYTHING ELSE?
You
tell
us!
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27. LINKS
WEBSITE
hGp://gethue.com
BLOG
hGp://blog.gethue.com
TWITTER
@gethue
USER GROUP
hue-­‐user@
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In
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of
Hue
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Newer
version
than
HDP,
close
to
the
original
2.5
minus
apps
like
HBase,
Impala,
Sqoop,
Search.
The
newest
addiKon,
ships
Hue
3.0
through
the
GreenBuGon
products.
* YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY.
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29. TEAM@
GETHUE.COM
WHAT ARE YOUR USE
CASES?
INTERESTED IN
CONTRIBUTING?
WANNA SAY HELLO?
WHICH COMPONENTS DO
YOU USE?
WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO
SEE IN HUE?
DO YOU WANT A TAILOR
MADE TEAM RETREAT?
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30. THANKS.
www.gethue.com
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