This talk with give and overview of exciting two releases for Apache HBase and Phoenix. HBase 2.0 is the next stable major release for Apache HBase scheduled for early 2017. It is the next evolution from the Apache HBase community after 1.0. HBase-2.0 contains a large number of features that is long time in the development, some of which include rewritten region assignment, perf improvements (RPC, rewritten write pipeline, etc), async clients, C++ client, offheaping memstore and other buffers, Spark integration, shading of dependencies as well as a lot of other fixes and stability improvements. We will go into technical details on some of the most important improvements in the release, as well as what are the implications for the users in terms of API and upgrade paths. Phoenix 5.0 is the next biggest and most exciting milestone release because of Phoenix integration with Apache Calcite which ads lot of performance benefits with new query optimizer and helps to integrate with other data sources, especially those also based on calcite. It has lot of cool features such as Encoded columns, Kafka, Hive integration, improvements in secondary index rebuilding and many performance improvements.