## Description: The mission of Phoenix is the creation and maintenance of software related to High performance relational database layer over Apache HBase for low latency applications
## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing Issues for the board: Our former Chair, Istvan Toth, stepped down for health reasons. We are sorry to report his recent passing, after a brief illness. A VOTE for new PMC chair was completed, proposing Viraj Jasani (vjasani) be appointed to the position of VP, Apache Phoenix. The vote passed with 11 +1 binding votes and no vetos: https://lists.apache.org/thread/dn9gd8ncpxkj5t457gbct7655xnp78sk Phoenix 5.3.1 release is in progress. We expect to complete the release before the end of the month. ## Membership Data: Apache Phoenix was founded 2014-05-20 (12 years ago) There are currently 60 committers and 38 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Jacob Isaac on 2023-11-06. - No new committers. Last addition was Nihal Jain on 2025-08-05. ## Project Activity: Development activity remains average. Feature development is concentrated on the consistent failover feature, improving CDC (Change Data Capture), and support for the DynamoDB connector/adapter. Recent major features also include the eventually consistent global secondary indexes. Some recent enhancements include new metrics at client and server side. Recent releases: thirdparty-2.2.0 was released on 2025-12-10. 5.3.0 was released on 2025-10-03. phoenix-omid-1.1.3 was released on 2025-04-04. 87 JIRA tickets were opened and 56 were closed in the past quarter. [email protected] had a 100% increase in traffic in the past quarter (338 emails compared to 169) [email protected] had a 79% increase in traffic in the past quarter (542 emails compared to 302) ## Community Health: Overall community health is acceptable. Most of the development is done by our core team of about a dozen active developers.
