The create table metastore wizard does not currently support parquet files in input. You should be able to manually create an external table based on those files: https://www.google.com/search?q=hive+create+table+from+parquet+files&oq=hive+create+table+from+parquet+files&aqs=chrome..69i57.7586j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8 ... View more

Ha, hope Hive will speed-up in the next version 😉 ... View more

If you submit with beeline on the CLI, do you have the same problem? Anything in the HiveServer2 logs? (this is probably unrelated to Hue but more a Hive setup problem) ... View more

Yes, you need to install HiveServer2 (and if not on the same host as Hue, change the hive_server_host https://github.com/cloudera/hue/blob/master/desktop/conf.dist/hue.ini#L699 About HDFS it looks good, just Hue is expecting / to be owned by the 'hdfs' user which is also traditionally the HDFS superuser. If 'hdfs' is not the super use just update https://github.com/cloudera/hue/blob/master/desktop/conf.dist/hue.ini#L63 or you can ignore it for now. Romain ... View more

If you use CDH the base version of Hue might be the same but Hue has much more new stuff in 5.4 than 5.2. You can just copy the db indeed. Then you need to run the migration. If using CM, click on migrate the DB in the Hue service. If not using CM, you will have to run these commands: ./build/env/bin/hue syncdb ./build/env/bin/hue migrate http://gethue.com/hue-api-execute-some-builtin-commands/ ... View more

You need to configure the [impala] section of Hue to use SSL, e.g. http://gethue.com/how-to-use-hue-with-hive-and-impala-configured-with-ldap-authentication-and-ssl/ ... View more

It is there, look for the correct file path: https://github.com/cloudera/hue/blob/cdh5.4.1-release/apps/search/src/search/search_controller.py#L112 And FYI no need to compile, just editing and restarting Hue is enough Romain ... View more