Apache Phoenix Installation

Apache Phoenix is the new kid on the block in HBase world http://phoenix.apache.org/ It provides a SQL layer on top of HBase and greatly improves productivity. It provides standard RDBMS create table statements and also the secondary indexes to be created. However, if HBase was a poor fit for the use case then Phoenix is not going to change the underlying reality.

Here are the instructions to install

This is how the final HBase architecture looks with Phoenix installed