PhoenixRESTServer was introduced to serve as a stop gap for some features not currently supported by the Phoenix Query Server. At this time non Java clients cannot directly interact with the Phoenix Query Server. REST functionality is available in the Phoenix Query Server but functionality is limited (Array type will not work for example). In order to ease the adoption pains for non Java shops PhoenixRESTServer was created to fill these gaps.

PhoenixRESTServer is a Java application written with the lightweight microframework Dropwizard. This application accepts REST requests from any client and translates those REST requests into the correlating Phoenix JDBC command. With this approach PhoenixRESTServer is capable of performing any of the supported Phoenix JDBC features from non Java languages. Since the applications are lightweight they can be colocated on your HBase Region Servers. Colocating them on the Region Servers also saves bandwidth since this eliminates the network traffic that would otherwise be required to transfer the larger datasets to the client where client side operations would occur. PhoenixRESTServer could also be deployed behind a HTTP/TCP load balancer to balance requests traffic. Here is a high level (and ugly) deployment architecture.

PhoenixRESTServer configuration is done via a single YAML file. All Dropwizard configuration values are valid as well. A sample is present at PhoenixRESTServer.yml for reference. TODO: add more information around configuration and clean up.

git clone https://github.com/jdye64/PhoenixRESTServer.git
cd ./PhoenixRESTServer
mvn clean install package && java -jar ./target/PhoenixRESTServer-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar server PhoenixRESTServer.yml

• .NET Demo Client

• Documentation about REST API and expected payloads
• Phoenix error catching a propagation. More elegant error catching and gracefully propagating those errors back to the client.
• Python client module (@randerzander =) )
• CURL examples for most common requests
• Simple query logging to file. This should be easy to achieve with a mixture of standard file logging and splashing in a few statements here and there