Hi Dmitry, James has answered this couple of times in earlier threads. Found this useful. Hope it helps!
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/phoenix-hbase-user/lL-SVFeFpNg https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/phoenix-hbase-user/U3hCUhRTZV8 Regards Ravi On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Dmitry Goldenberg <dgoldenberg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Could someone provide an overview of connection pooling vis a vis Phoenix? > > 1. Does Phoenix do connection pooling under the covers? We currently just > create connections and then close them once we're done with a given request > which doesn't seem to drastically curtail performance. However, we've not > truly stressed the system just yet. We're wondering if indeed we should go > with connection pooling, from the performance perspective. > > 2. If there's no built-in connection pooling, does it make sense to > integrate something like Apache Dbcp? > > Thanks. >