We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Phoenix 1.2
(https://github.com/forcedotcom/phoenix/wiki/Download). Here are some of
the release highlights:
* Improve performance of multi-point and multi-range queries (20x plus)
using new skip scan
* Support TopN queries (3-70x faster than Hive)
* Control row key order when defining primary key columns
* Salt tables declaratively to prevent hot spotting
* Specify columns dynamically at query time
* Write Phoenix-compliant HFiles from Pig scripts and Map/Reduce jobs
* Support SELECT DISTINCT
* Leverage essential column family feature
* Bundle command line terminal interface
* Specify scale and precision on decimal type
* Support fixed length binary type
* Add TO_CHAR, TO_NUMBER, COALESCE, UPPER, LOWER, and REVERSE built-in
functions
HBase 0.94.4 or above is required with HBase 0.94.7 being recommended.
For more detail, please see our announcement:
http://phoenix-hbase.blogspot.com/2013/05/announcing-phoenix-12.html
Regards,
James
@JamesPlusPlus
http://phoenix-hbase.blogspot.com/
