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| layout: post |
| status: PUBLISHED |
| published: true |
| title: Announcing Phoenix 4.3 released |
| id: 02e13875-36ee-47e3-a325-433f7ca4d14a |
| date: '2015-02-24 21:52:21 -0500' |
| categories: phoenix |
| tags: |
| - release |
| - hbase |
| - apache |
| - sql |
| - database |
| - relational |
| - phoenix |
| permalink: phoenix/entry/announcing_phoenix_4_3_released |
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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 4.3 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 and above.</p> |
| <p>The release includes:</p></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="http://phoenix.apache.org/secondary_indexing.html#Functional_Indexes" target="_blank" title="Statistics collection">Functional indexes</a> to allow arbitrary expressions to be indexed</li> |
| <li><a href="http://phoenix.apache.org/phoenix_mr.html" target="_blank" title="map reduce">Map reduce</a> over Phoenix tables</li> |
| <li><a href="http://phoenix.apache.org/joins.html" target="_blank" title="cross join">Cross join</a> support</li> |
| <li><a href="http://phoenix.apache.org/secondary_indexing.html#Examples" target="_blank" title="query hint">Query hint</a> to force index usage</li> |
| <li>Set HBase properties through ALTER TABLE statement</li> |
| <li>ISO-8601 date format support on input</li> |
| <li>New RAND built-in function to generate random numbers</li> |
| <li>ANSI SQL date/time literal support</li> |
| <li>Query timeout support in JDBC Statement</li> |
| <li>~90 <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/phoenix/4.0/CHANGES" target="_blank" title="bug fixes">bug fixes</a></li> |
| </ul> |
| <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> |
