<s>
Apache	B-Application
Phoenix	I-Application
is	O
an	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
,	O
massively	B-Operating_System
parallel	I-Operating_System
,	O
relational	B-Application
database	I-Application
engine	O
supporting	O
OLTP	B-General_Concept
for	O
Hadoop	B-Application
using	O
Apache	B-Language
HBase	I-Language
as	O
its	O
backing	O
store	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Phoenix	O
provides	O
a	O
JDBC	B-Language
driver	O
that	O
hides	O
the	O
intricacies	O
of	O
the	O
NoSQL	B-General_Concept
store	O
enabling	O
users	O
to	O
create	O
,	O
delete	O
,	O
and	O
alter	O
SQL	B-Language
tables	O
,	O
views	O
,	O
indexes	O
,	O
and	O
sequences	O
;	O
insert	O
and	O
delete	O
rows	O
singly	O
and	O
in	O
bulk	O
;	O
and	O
query	O
data	O
through	O
SQL	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Phoenix	O
compiles	O
queries	O
and	O
other	O
statements	O
into	O
native	O
NoSQL	B-General_Concept
store	O
APIs	O
rather	O
than	O
using	O
MapReduce	B-Operating_System
enabling	O
the	O
building	O
of	O
low	O
latency	O
applications	O
on	O
top	O
of	O
NoSQL	B-General_Concept
stores	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Phoenix	O
began	O
as	O
an	O
internal	O
project	O
by	O
the	O
company	O
salesforce.com	B-Application
out	O
of	O
a	O
need	O
to	O
support	O
a	O
higher	O
level	O
,	O
well	O
understood	O
,	O
SQL	B-Language
language	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
originally	O
open-sourced	O
on	O
GitHub	B-Application
on	O
28	O
Jan	O
2014	O
and	O
became	O
a	O
top-level	O
Apache	O
project	O
on	O
22	O
May	O
2014	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Apache	B-Application
Phoenix	I-Application
is	O
included	O
in	O
the	O
Cloudera	B-General_Concept
Data	O
Platform	O
7.0	O
and	O
above	O
,	O
Hortonworks	B-Application
distribution	O
for	O
HDP	O
2.1	O
and	O
above	O
,	O
is	O
available	O
as	O
part	O
of	O
Cloudera	B-General_Concept
labs	O
,	O
and	O
is	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
Hadoop	B-Application
ecosystem	O
.	O
</s>
