© Shakil Akhtar and Ravi Magham 2017

Shakil Akhtar and Ravi Magham, Pro Apache Phoenix, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2370-3_7

7. Advanced Phoenix Concepts

Shakil Akhtar and Ravi Magham2

(1)Bangalore, Karnataka, India

(2)Santa Clara, California, USA

It is important to consider data retrieval or search performance in achieving customer SLAs to get a business benefit out of it. We add indexes to improve data access time performance for relational as well as NoSQL databases. We will discuss in this chapter,how Phoneix indexing improves query performance for larger data sets. Along with Indexing, we will see how to work with phoenix user defined functions (UDF) , writing custom UDFs and phoenix query server.

7.1 Secondary Indexes

For efficient access to data in ...

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