With respect to a django / python API implementation, Cloudera HUE is one of the most elaborate and advanced codebases I have seen - it is essentially designed

With respect to a django / python API implementation, Cloudera HUE is one of the most elaborate and advanced codebases I have seen - it is essentially designed to serve as a pluggable "desktop service" for interacting with the Apache Hadoop and co. ecosystem (Hive, Pig, Impala,): https://github.com/cloudera/hue/blob/master/docs/sdk/sdk.md#an-architectural-view https://github.com/cloudera/hue/blob/master/docs/sdk/sdk.md#... https://github.com/cloudera/hue https://github.com/cloudera/hue