Hadoop Hive web interface options

Question

I've been experimenting with Hive for some data mining activities and would like to make it easily available to less command line orientated colleagues.

Hive does now ship with a web interface (http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hive/HiveWebInterface) but it's very basic at this stage.

My question is does a visually polished and fully featured interface (either desktop or preferably web based) to Hive exist yet? Are their any open source efforts outside the Hive project working on this?

Answer 1

Now with new version of Cloudera's Hadoop Distribution comes HUE (Hadoop User Experience) with plugin called Beeswax, which most likely all you would need.

It's pretty tricky to configure, but one you get over it, it provides something like phpmyadmin interface, but is much nicer and easier. It supports writing queries, importing data, storing results, etc.