Think about analogies to netty for network programming in Java
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From: kishore g <g.kish...@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 10:46 AM
Subject: Re-define: What is Helix
To: <u...@helix.apache.org>, <dev@helix.apache.org>
Hi,This is something that has been bothering most of us. Should we callHelix
*"clustermanagement framework"*? Its a framework alright, but is it
clustermanager?- I am not sure. Cluster management is a broad term and can
meandifferent things to different people. But the most common understanding
ofcluster management term is managing a set of machines and
starting/stoppingprocesses on those machines. In other words, it cluster
management issynonymous to a deployment solution.Because of this terminology,
Helix is often compared with Mesos/YARN/Ambariand other frameworks that manage
the start/stop of processes. I haveanswered this
athttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/16401412/apache-helix-vs-yarn but everyone
i talk to ask the same question again and again. For e.g. some oneasked if they
can put together a Hadoop Cluster using Helix. Here is the Hadoopecosystem
table where Helix islabelled as system deployment.I feel the best way to clear
this confusion is re-brand Helix as somethingelse 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
