Thanks for the positive feedback, Mike. I wouldn't counter this argument, I'd agree with it. The more Cloudera customers that ask for Phoenix to be included in the distribution, the more likely it is to be included. Some good news, though - Cloudera just released 5.1 which should work fine with Phoenix now as it's based on HBase 0.98 instead of 0.96.
Also, FWIW, Phoenix is included in the Hortonworks 2.1 distribution. Thanks, James On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Mike Friedman <mike.fried...@ds-iq.com> wrote: > Phoenix's performance is great. The JDBC driver is very convenient for > programming and allows use of existing tools such as DB Visualizer. However, > since Phoenix is not a component of the Cloudera distribution of Hadoop > (CDH), there is always the risk that the latest version of CDH will break > Phoenix. Such is the case with CDH 5.0, which contains HBase 0.96 in contrast > to Phoenix's dependency on HBase 0.98. Therefore it is safer to use a > technology that is included in CDH. An organization that is using CDH and > upgrades CDH as the new CDH versions come out always runs the risk that > Phoenix is out of sync and broken. How would one counter this argument? > > > Mike
