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: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Think about analogies to netty for network programming in Java > > > > > > _____________________________ > > From: kishore g <[email protected]> > > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 10:46 AM > > Subject: Re-define: What is Helix > > To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> > > > > > > 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 > >
