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Apache Phoenix

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Development status
  
Active

Operating system
  
Cross-platform

Written in
  
Java

Type
  
SQL database

Apache Phoenix

Developer(s)
  
Apache Software Foundation

Stable release
  
4.9.0 / 24 November 2016 (2016-11-24)

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. 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.

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 GitHub and became a top-level Apache project on 22 May 2014. Apache Phoenix is included in the Hortonworks distribution for HDP 2.1 and above, is available as part of Cloudera labs, and is part of the Hadoop ecosystem.

References

Apache Phoenix Wikipedia