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| title: Announcing Phoenix 4.5 released |
| date: '2015-07-30T00:00:00+00:00' |
| categories: phoenix |
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| <p>The <a href="http://phoenix.apache.org" target="_blank" title="Apache Phoenix">Apache Phoenix</a> team is pleased to announce the immediate <a href="http://phoenix.apache.org/download.html" target="_blank" title="download">availability of the 4.5.0 release</a>. Phoenix is a relational database layer on top of <a href="http://hbase.apache.org/" target="_blank" title="Apache HBase">Apache HBase</a> accessed as a JDBC driver for querying, updating, and managing HBase tables using SQL. The 4.x releases are compatible with HBase 0.98/1.0/1.1.</p>
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| <p>Here are some of the highlights of the 4.4 and 4.5 releases:</p>
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| <li><a href="http://phoenix.apache.org/phoenix_spark.html" target="_blank" title="Spark">Spark Integration</a> (4.4)</li>
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| <li><a href="http://phoenix.apache.org/udf.html" target="_blank" title="UDFs">User Defined Functions</a> to allow users to create and deploy their own custom or domain-specific functions to the cluster (4.4)</li>
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| <li><a href="http://phoenix.apache.org/server.html" target="_blank" title="Query Server">Query Server</a> to enable a thin driver to connect to a dedicated query server node (4.4)</li>
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| <li><a href="http://phoenix.apache.org/pherf.html" target="_blank" title="Pherf">Pherf tool</a> for performance and functional testing at scale (4.4)</li>
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| <li>Support for UNION ALL construct (4.4)</li>
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| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-1779" target="_blank" title="metrics">7.5x performance improvement</a> for non aggregated, un-ordered queries (4.4)</li>
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| <li><a href="http://phoenix.apache.org/secondary_indexing.html#Asynchronous_Index_Population" target="_blank" title="Asynchronous Index Population">Asynchronous index population</a> through map-reduce based index builder (4.5)</li>
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| <li>Support for SELECT without FROM clause (4.5)</li>
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| <li>Support for <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-1504" target="_blank" title="metrics">adding column to table with views</a> (4.5)</li>
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| <li>Support for <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-978" target="_blank" title="metrics">updatable view to extend primary key of base table</a> (4.5)</li>
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| <li>Collect <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-1819" target="_blank" title="metrics">client-side metrics at the statement level</a> (4.5)</li>
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| <li>Many new date, math, and ARRAY <a href="http://phoenix.apache.org/language/functions.html" target="_blank" title="built-ins">built-in functions</a> (4.4 & 4.5)</li>
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| <li>200+ <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12315120&version=12332152" target="_blank" title="bug fixes">bug fixes</a> (4.4 & 4.5)</li>
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| </ul>
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| <p>Source and binary downloads are available <a href="http://phoenix.apache.org/download.html" target="_blank" title="latest release download"><strong>here</strong></a>.</p> |
