Major Description
Currently, taking Phoenix for a test drive (i.e. create a table, add a bit of data to it, and query it) is currently pretty involved, in that you need to have an HBase cluster set up, etc.
It would be handy, both for new users to try things out, as well as for running ad-hoc test scenarios, to have a self-contained sandbox that can be started up. This sandbox would start a self-contained HBase with Phoenix installed, and allow connecting to it via JDBC.