Is there any good open source web-based front end analytics tool that can talk to HIVE/HDFS for data ?
Two that I recently became aware of are:
http://www.jaspersoft.com/
http://datameer.com/products/das-for-hadoop-users.html
I don't have a lot of info on these yet, have just begun researching them, but... It's two I'm aware of and wanted to share.
UPDATE: I found out about Snowfinch and wanted to include it in my answer