Hue - SQL Assistant for Databases and Data Warehouses

Query. Explore. Share.

🗄️ Overview

Hue is a mature SQL Assistant for querying Databases & Data Warehouses, trusted by:

• 1000+ customers worldwide
• Top Fortune 500 enterprises

Organizations use Hue to quickly answer questions via self-service querying, executing hundreds of thousands of queries daily.

Key Features

• ✏️ Interactive SQL editing with syntax highlighting and autocomplete
• 📁 File Browser for navigating and operating on HDFS, S3, ABFS, Ozone, and Google Storage (GS) files
• 📊 Job Browser for monitoring and managing Hive queries, Impala queries, YARN applications, and Livy Spark jobs
• 🗃️ Table Browser for exploring and managing database tables, schemas, and metadata
• 📤 Table Importer for creating Hive and Impala tables from CSV/Excel files, with support for uploading from local system or importing from remote filesystems (HDFS, S3, ABFS, Ozone, GS)
• 🔗 Multiple database connectors including Hive, Impala, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and more

🔗 Useful Links

• 🏠 Website: gethue.com
• 🔌 Connect to a database: Configuration Guide
• 🛠️ Build your own Editor: SQL Scratchpad
• ⚙️ Query Service: Kubernetes Setup and API

🚀 Getting Started

Try Hue Now

• 🌐 Live demo: demo.gethue.com
• 🧪 Quick integrations:
  • Hive
  • Impala
  • Trino/Presto
  • Phoenix SQL / HBase
  • Spark SQL

Choose one of these deployment options to start the server, then configure the databases you want to query:

🐳 Docker

Start Hue instantly:

docker run -it -p 8888:8888 gethue/hue:latest

Hue will be available at http://localhost:8888

📖 See the Docker Guide or watch the Quick Start Video

☸️ Kubernetes

helm repo add gethue https://helm.gethue.com
helm repo update
helm install hue gethue/hue

📖 Read more about configurations in the Kubernetes docs

💻 Development Setup

Quick Start with Docker

Use the Dev Environment Docker for the fastest setup.

Manual Setup

1. Install dependencies
2. Clone and build:

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

Hue will be available at http://localhost:8000

📖 Read more in the development documentation

🧩 Components

Hue offers several powerful components:

• SQL Editor - Interactive query interface
• SQL Parsers - Syntax handling for multiple dialects
• REST/Python/CLI APIs - Programmatic access to all functionality

📖 Learn about components and APIs

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our CONTRIBUTING.md guide to get started.

📜 License

Apache License, Version 2.0