Dashboard support in Crux

We have added a quick glimpse dashboard to Crux, so that business users can check all the key performance indicators in one place. You can drag and drop and choose the reports you want, and Crux will automatically display them for you on the landing page. We hope you enjoy this new feature.

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Crux at Bangalore Hadoop Meetup

Here are the slides for the Crux presentation at Bangalore Hadoop Meetup, Dec 2011

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New Chart Types supported in Crux

We have added support for new chart types, in preparation for supporting aggregations and advanced querying with Crux. Here are some of the new charts you can create with Crux. Clustered Columns Stacked Columns Stacked Areas Stacked Line Multi Line

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Crux – Visualizing and querying big data saved in HBase

In this post, we will walk through an example of creating different visualizations with data stored in a HBase store. We will use Crux and explore its filtering and charting capabilities. Firstly, some background. HBase is a columnar datastore for big data. Utilizing the Hadoop HDFS and providing direct support to Map Reduce, HBase has [...]

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Crux Feature List

Crux, a reporting application for HBase has the following features: 1. Native integration with HBase to exploit the low latency needed by a reporting application. Crux completely uses the inbuilt HBase Java api to provide maximum functionality to the user. 2. Ability to use any HBase table schema. You can configure your mapping to define [...]

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Creating your first report with Crux

In this post, we will walk through the steps in creating a simple tabular report with a table stockData in HBase. This table has the date as the rowkey and has column families price, spread and stats. We store everything in as strings, not exactly the right way to store the numerics but perfect for [...]

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Crux User Group

We have created Crux User group for helping people with Crux and seek suggestions, bugs, areas of improvements etc. cruxUsers Visit this group You can subscribe to the group by entering your email below Subscribe to cruxUsers Email: Visit this group

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Crux Reporting for HBase

We have been working on Crux for some time now, and today we pushed the first version out to Github. Crux is a reporting application for HBase, the Hadoop database. Crux helps to query and visualize data saved in HBase. HBase is a distributed, versioned, column-oriented store modeled after Google’ Bigtable . HBase is in [...]

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