Phoenix on Amazon EMR

Follow these steps to deploy HBase with Phoenix on Amazon's Elastic MapReduce (EMR).

1. Amazon EMR Configuration

1. Create a free/paid EMR account
2. Download the latest CLI from and follow the setup instructions here.

Note: Step 2 is a multi-step process in which you would install ruby, gem, create credentials file and create a S3 bucket.

2. Deploy HBase with Phoenix on EMR using Web Console

Using Web Console

Go to Elastic MapReduce > Create Cluster and follow the steps listed below:

1. Type your cluster name
2. Set AMI version to 3.0.1
3. From Additional Application drop down, select HBase and add.
4. In Core text box, enter the number of HBase region server(s) you want configured for your cluster
5. Add a custom action bootstrap from dropdown and specify S3 location: s3://beta.elasticmapreduce/bootstrap-actions/phoenix/install-phoenix-bootstrap.sh and click add.
6. Click Create Cluster

Using CLI

Instead of using Web Console, you may use following CLI command to deploy HBase with Phoenix:

./elastic-mapreduce --create --instance-type c1.xlarge --name 
PHOENIX_2.2_install --ami-version 3.0.1 --hbase --alive --bootstrap-action 
"s3://beta.elasticmapreduce/bootstrap-actions/phoenix/install-phoenix-bootstrap.sh"

3. Usage

SSH to the EMR Master and CD to /home/hadoop/hbase/lib/phoenix/bin

Create test data: ./performance localhost 1000000

SQL CLI: ./sqlline localhost