You can now use Apache Tez 0.8.3 , Apache Phoenix 4.7.0 , and upgraded versions of Presto (0.147) , Apache HBase (1.2.1) , and Apache Mahout (0.12.0) on Amazon EMR release 4.7.0 . Also, Amazon Redshift JDBC drivers are now included on Amazon EMR clusters for use with components such as the Spark-Redshift connector.