[ANNOUNCE] Apache Phoenix 5.0.0 released

["rajeshbabu@apache.org" <ch...@gmail.com>]

The Apache Phoenix team is pleased to announce release of it's next major
version 5.0.0
compatible with HBase 2.0+. 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 5.0.0 release has feature parity with recently released 4.14.0.
Highlights of the release include:

* Cleanup deprecated APIs and leveraged new Performant APIs
* Refactored coprocessor implementations to make use new Coprocessor or
Observer APIs in HBase 2.0
* Hive and Spark Integration works in latest versions of Hive(3.0.0) and
Spark(2.3.0) respectively.

For more details, visit our blog here [1] and download source and binaries
here [2].

Thanks,
Rajeshbabu (on behalf of the Apache Phoenix team)

[1]
https://blogs.apache.org/phoenix/entry/apache-phoenix-releases-next-major
[2] http://phoenix.apache.org/download.html