Completely concur with this, demand Phoenix packaging and support from your vendor of choice! (smile)
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 9:30 AM, James Taylor <jamestay...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 > -- Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White)
