[ANNOUNCE] Python Driver for Apache Phoenix (phoenixdb) 1.0.0 released

[Istvan Toth <st...@apache.org>]

Hello Everyone,

The Apache Phoenix team is pleased to announce the immediate
availability of the 1.0.0 release of the Python Driver for Apache
Phoenix.
The Python Driver for Apache Phoenix implements the Python DB 2.0 API
to access Phoenix via the Phoenix Query Server.

This is the first release of the driver by the Apache Phoenix team,
and includes the following improvements compared to the previous 0.7
release by the original author:


- Replaced bundled requests_kerberos with request_gssapi library
- Use default SPNEGO Auth settings from request_gssapi
- Refactored authentication code
- Added support for specifying server certificate
- Added support for BASIC and DIGEST authentication
- Fixed HTTP error parsing
- Added transaction support
- Added list support
- Rewritten type handling
- Refactored test suite
- Removed shell example, as it was python2 only
- Updated documentation
- Added SQLAlchemy dialect
- Implemented Avatica Metadata API
- Misc fixes
- Licensing cleanup

Download source here [1],

or install via pip [2].

Thanks,
Istvan Toth
(on behalf of the Apache Phoenix team)

[1] https://phoenix.apache.org/download.html
<http://phoenix.apache.org/download.html>
[2] https://pypi.org/project/phoenixdb/