Throwing in another option "Toolkit for building distributed systems".
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Kanak Biscuitwala <kana...@hotmail.com> wrote: > SolrCloud's Helix clone throws around the word "orchestrate". I have found > it to be a useful term when describing Helix to others as well. > > > Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 11:25:27 -0700 > > Subject: Re: Re-define: What is Helix > > From: osgig...@gmail.com > > To: u...@helix.apache.org > > CC: dev@helix.apache.org > > > > > I read through the response on the stackoverflow and from what I know > > the crux of the Helix framework appears to be 'Automation of > > Declarative State Management for Clustered Resources' ... now isn't > > that a mouth-full :-) > > > > I think any other capability with scaling etc is add-on to the core > > competency of Helix. > > > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Shirshanka Das <shirsha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Think about analogies to netty for network programming in Java > > > > > > > > > _____________________________ > > > 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 > > > >
