HBase committer involved with Phoenix here... Phoenix is not faster than HBase per se, it automates using all the performance knobs HBase has and is smart abou

HBase committer involved with Phoenix here... Phoenix is not faster than HBase per se, it automates using all the performance knobs HBase has and is smart about what actions should be performed at the client and what can be parallelized and/or pushed to the HBase servers (as standard HBase filters or coprocessors)