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Apache Zeppelin vs Hue: catalog facts
Apache Zeppelin	Hue
Free Free and open source from the Apache Software Foundation.	Free Free and open source; you host it yourself.
Web, Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Supports SQL, Scala, Python, R and Spark in one notebook Connects to any JDBC data source	Connectors for many SQL engines and data warehouses Autocompleting query editor
Needs to be installed and run as a server Setup for clusters and multiple users takes some configuration	Needs a server to install and run Built around data warehouses rather than small local databases
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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