--- title: Apache Phoenix Reviews meta\_title: 'Apache Phoenix Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 27 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Apache Phoenix works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 3.7 review\_count: 27 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Database Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/database-software --- # Apache Phoenix Reviews & Product Details Apache Phoenix is an open source, massively parallel, relational database engine supporting OLTP for Hadoop using Apache HBase as its backing store. * * * Seller [The Apache Software Foundation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/the-apache-software-foundation) Discussions [Apache Phoenix Community](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-phoenix/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![MySQL](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "MySQL") MySQL 4.4/5(1,682) ](https://www.g2.com/products/mysql/reviews) [ ![Microsoft SQL Server](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Microsoft SQL Server") Microsoft SQL Server 4.4/5(2,286) ](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-sql-server/reviews) [ ![PostgreSQL](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "PostgreSQL") PostgreSQL 4.4/5(684) ](https://www.g2.com/products/postgresql/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-phoenix/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 27 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) JM Jannier M. Applications and Web security Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/6/2021 "See Hadoop for low latency applications." 3.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Phoenix? Complete and flexible ACID transaction capacity, NoSQL schema reading by taking advantage of speed and fast HBase query. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Phoenix? Everything has to be done manually, an error is difficult to find to correct with the lack of data and information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Phoenix: Integrate system for data analysis and immediate consultation, activity control and personalized data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Phoenix solving and how is that benefiting you? Data repository for immediate consultation, administrator and analytics of thousands of data integrated or installed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Arunesh T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Arunesh T.") AT Arunesh T. Lead Assistant Manager Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/2/2020 "Apache Phoenix has high performance capabilities if you are working with Hadoop technologies" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Phoenix? When working with high volume of data, Apache phoenix will provide high performance and helps you in performance tuning and also provide some additional features which will help you get the results faster in very less time for complex query also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Phoenix? It is new and open source so you have to explore most of the things by yourself. The more you explore the more you like this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Phoenix: Yes,you can give a shot as it is open source software and can review this by yourself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Phoenix solving and how is that benefiting you? I have used Apache phoenix for analytics purpose when we are working on huge volume data say as billion of records. This will help you in working with huge volume of data. I will suggest that give it a shot as this is open source and you will see the difference with trade mark products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 12/10/2020 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Kartik M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kartik M.") KM Kartik M. Lead Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/17/2020 "Growing Project, but a long way to go. Used it for a gigantic table (~1TB) to query data for a API" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Phoenix? Response time ~ hbase query, SQL support with JDBC standards Phoenix is developing gradually and with hbase 2.0 support it has reached good. It's the option explored when we wanted something cheap which can sit inside our emr cluster. having EMR is good on it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Phoenix? installation steps, no window func, not using proper error message instead giving stacktrace (though sometimes more useful) but should be logged, spark support was very late, documentation is not verbose, bad orm library (not widely supported by other ORM)) unfortunately phoenix popularity is dependent on hbase, and hbase is somewhat not in talks very much. I find no cloud provider is giving serverless hbase/phoenix hosting. EMR is managed but emr support team is quite limited with knowledge with in phoenix specially. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Phoenix: Try all SQL queries first that would be required. Eg. window function, ranks are not there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Phoenix solving and how is that benefiting you? Using Bulk Tools is pain, we use csv dump as of now. CSV dump misses a lot of features (compare with pg copy command) We have just 1 table which has a row combination of 2 cols. The table contains ~1TB of data. Benefits - Very cost effective, using existing resources hbase, hadoop. Good for a direct usecase (but if someone wants a primary db better to try other dbs like cassandra, mongo etc based on use case) Bulk Tools are something very good and I first used it with phoenix , however support for more formats like parquet, orc should be used built in bulk tools because data isn't store in csv/json/tsv on datalake) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite SS Sebastian S. Software engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/4/2021 "SQL query" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Phoenix? Integrate Apache HBase and automatic database backup Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Phoenix? I have no problems with integration and extra API Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Phoenix: Server control system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Phoenix solving and how is that benefiting you? Hadoop analysis and API for SQL database Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Subhodip B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Subhodip B.") SB Subhodip B. Technical Lead Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/17/2021 "One of the best ways to access your data." 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Phoenix? Pheonix can actually create a layer of abstraction to hide the complexity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Phoenix? The lack of a GUI intruder to visualise and create an architectecture diagram. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Phoenix solving and how is that benefiting you? Can query a petabyte dataset similar to querying a gigabyte dataset. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") UR Verified User in Retail Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/12/2021 "Best fits for web-apps /products" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Phoenix? Response time for large data tables and flexibility to create external index,SQL interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Phoenix? Limited options on metadata, few abnormal index behaviour observed at higher environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Phoenix: Go to tool for web-based products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Phoenix solving and how is that benefiting you? Hosting web-applications, reporting layer for BI Tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Poojan K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Poojan K.") PK Poojan K. Data Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/31/2020 "With apache pheonix we were able to ease usage of hbase" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Phoenix? Apache phoenix have helped us to integrate our hbase store with spark engine and also provided solution for region hotspot issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Phoenix? Integration with Kerberos and installation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Phoenix solving and how is that benefiting you? Able to have sql like layers on top of hbase and also salt bucketing features has provided solution of region hotspot issue Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/17/2020 "I used Apache Phoenix as a part of my integration" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Phoenix? It’s best to use when you compared other products in market Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Phoenix? Initial understanding is little quiet difficult for beginners Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Phoenix: It’s esy and robust Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Phoenix solving and how is that benefiting you? We used to create some tables and data. That we sent different Data to big data . It’s very easy in both use and documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite VR vishal r. Quality Assurance Quality Control Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/19/2019 "Apache Phoenix is a relational database engine support" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Phoenix? Apache Phoenix is an amazing tool for relational database support. and Apache Phoenix is an open source, massively parallel, relational database engine supporting OLTP for Hadoop using Apache HBase.this tool is easy to learn and user-friendly. this tool helps me in the database . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Phoenix? Phoenix offers lower latency but lower throughput. It has less flexibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Phoenix: Phoenix is an open source SQL skin for HBase.Phoenix is a SQL layer between applications and HBase, it provides ad-hoc queries in real time. Apache Phoenix helps us build Phoenix HBase ORM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Phoenix solving and how is that benefiting you? Phoenix compiles queries and other statements into native NoSQL store APIs rather than using MapReduce enabling the building of low latency applications on top of NoSQL stores. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 11/30/2019 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Market Research](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Market Research") UM Verified User in Market Research Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/31/2020 "Friendly for developers and analysts alike." 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Phoenix? SQL like abstraction for HBase? Which has a complex query language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Phoenix? Nothing really. Apache Phoenix was incredibly helpful! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Phoenix solving and how is that benefiting you? Providing an alternative to Apache HBase. 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