read about apache phoenix on 

http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2013/03/phoenix-in-15-minutes-or-less/

and 

http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/resources/library/hbasecon2014/taming-hbase-with-apache-...

I followed the instructions on 

http://phoenix.apache.org/download.html#Installation

Since I am on CDH5 I downloaded Phoenix 4.2.2 - HBase 0.98.1+

I untared the packaged and copied the phoenix-4.2.2-server.jar to lib/hbase/lib to every region server and restarted the cluster

but when I invoke phoenix via sqlline (they now include the package)  bin/sqlline.py localhost

Setting property: [isolation, TRANSACTION_READ_COMMITTED]
issuing: !connect jdbc:phoenix:zookeeper.local none none org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixDriver
Connecting to jdbc:phoenix:localhost
java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/apache/phoenix/jdbc/PhoenixDriver : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:631)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:615)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:169)
at sqlline.SqlLine$DatabaseConnection.connect(SqlLine.java:4608)
at sqlline.SqlLine$DatabaseConnection.getConnection(SqlLine.java:4701)
at sqlline.SqlLine$Commands.connect(SqlLine.java:3942)
at sqlline.SqlLine$Commands.connect(SqlLine.java:3851)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at sqlline.SqlLine$ReflectiveCommandHandler.execute(SqlLine.java:2810)
at sqlline.SqlLine.dispatch(SqlLine.java:817)
at sqlline.SqlLine.initArgs(SqlLine.java:633)
at sqlline.SqlLine.begin(SqlLine.java:680)
at sqlline.SqlLine.mainWithInputRedirection(SqlLine.java:441)
at sqlline.SqlLine.main(SqlLine.java:424)

Anybody try to install phoenix on CDH - Can you share instructions