HDFS File Operations Made Easy with Hue by Romain Rigaux.
From the post:
Managing and viewing data in HDFS is an important part of Big Data analytics. Hue, the open source web-based interface that makes Apache Hadoop easier to use, helps you do that through a GUI in your browser — instead of logging into a Hadoop gateway host with a terminal program and using the command line.
The first episode in a new series of Hue demos, the video below demonstrates how to get up and running quickly with HDFS file operations via Hue’s File Browser application.
Very nice 2:18 video.
Brings the usual graphical file interface to Hadoop (no small feat) but reminds me of every other graphical file interface.
To step beyond the common graphical file interface, why not:
- Links to scripts that call a file
- File ownership – show all files owned by a user
- Navigation of files by content type(s)
- Grouping of files by common scripts
- Navigation of files by content
- Grouping of files by script owners calling the files
are just a few of the possibilities that come to mind.
I would make the roles in those relationships explicit but that is probably my topic map background showing through.