Apache Phoenix is an open source, massively parallel, relational database engine supporting OLTP for Hadoop using Apache HBase as its backing store. Phoenix provides a JDBC driver that hides the intricacies of the NoSQL store enabling users to create, delete, and alter SQL tables, views, indexes, and sequences; insert and delete rows singly and in bulk; and query data through SQL.James Taylor. "Apache Phoenix Transforming HBase into a SQL database", HadoopSummit , 4 June 2014. Phoenix compiles queries and other statements into native NoSQL store APIs rather than using MapReduce enabling the building of low latency applications on top of NoSQL stores.Istvan Szegedi. "Apache Phoenix – an SQL Driver for HBase", BigHadoop, 17 May 2014.
History Phoenix began as an internal project by the company salesforce.com out of a need to support a higher level, well understood, SQL language. It was originally open-sourced on GitHubAbel Avram. "Phoenix: Running SQL Queries on Apache HBase", InfoQ, 31 January 2013. on 28 Jan 2014 and became a top-level Apache project on 22 May 2014.Adam Seligman. "Apache Phoenix: A small step for big data", Salesforce.com Developer, 28 May 2014. Apache Phoenix is included in the Cloudera Data Platform 7.0 and above, Hortonworks distribution for HDP 2.1 and above,Hortonworks. "Chapter 7. Installing Phoenix", Hortonworks, 2 July 2014. is available as part of Cloudera labs,Srikanth Srungarapu. "Apache Phoenix Joins Cloudera Labs" , Cloudera, 6 May 2015. and is part of the Hadoop ecosystem.Serdar Yegulalp. "10 ways to query Hadoop with SQL", "", 16 September 2014.
See also Apache HBase Apache Hadoop
References
External links Official Apache Phoenix homepage Official Apache Phoenix blog