Hi, This is something that has been bothering most of us. Should we call Helix *"cluster management framework"*? Its a framework alright, but is it cluster manager?- I am not sure. Cluster management is a broad term and can mean different things to different people. But the most common understanding of cluster management term is managing a set of machines and starting/stopping processes on those machines. In other words, it cluster management is synonymous to a deployment solution.
Because of this terminology, Helix is often compared with Mesos/YARN/Ambari and other frameworks that manage the start/stop of processes. I have answered this at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16401412/apache-helix-vs-yarn but every one i talk to ask the same question again and again. For e.g. some one asked if they can put together a Hadoop Cluster using Helix. Here is the Hadoop ecosystem table <http://hadoopecosystemtable.github.io/>where Helix is labelled as system deployment. I feel the best way to clear this confusion is re-brand Helix as something else that helps one understand what it is and when can some one use it. What do others think. Any suggestions on what we should re-brand it as? thanks, Kishore G
