Announcing Phoenix 4.13 released

The Apache Phoenix team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 4.13.0 release. Apache Phoenix enables SQL-based OLTP and operational analytics for Apache Hadoop using Apache HBase as its backing store and providing integration with other projects in the Apache ecosystem such as Spark, Hive, Pig, Flume, and MapReduce. The 4.x releases are compatible with HBase 0.98 and 1.3.

Highlights of the release include:

• Critical bug fix to prevent snapshot creation of SYSTEM.CATALOG when connecting
• Numerous bug fixes around handling of row deletion
• Improvements to statistics collection
• New COLLATION_KEY built-in function for linguistic sort

Source and binary downloads are available here.