How to do backup / source version control for Hive Queries in Beeswax

Question

The HUE/beeswax interface conveniently allows to save queries. I'd like to have a little more control.

What would be a good way to put the saved queries under version control or back them up?

Background: Currently I edit the queries in a normal editor and save them as .hive (+ normal hg/git) to execute I copy the query into the execute query in hue/beeswax.

Answer 1

These are pain-points that are targeted in the 2.3 release.

Right now there is not way to export/import queries: everything stays in the Hue database.

In HUE-950 it is planned to have the queries editor save queries back to a file (that could be version controlled). A trash mechanism is also going to be added.

Also, directly using files from a version control repository will be done in HUE-951.

This is more discussed in this thread on the Hue mailing list.