Hi Larry, Helix is designed to help build distributed systems. This includes helping make single-node systems distributed, and making Postgres distributed is an example of this.
Note that Helix is a logical framework. It doesn't know how to partition or replicate your data, but it knows how to manage those partitions and replicas. A worthwhile example to look at is this one: https://github.com/kishoreg/fullmatix -- this is an example of building a database by sharding MySQL. Helix also has support for managing systems outside the JVM. With the Helix agent module, we have code that basically manages the lifecycle of an external process and provides facilities for triggering state transitions. See this for instructions: http://helix.apache.org/0.6.3-docs/tutorial_agent.html May I ask how exactly you plan to use Helix to manage your cluster? Kanak Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:42:07 -0400 Subject: Does helix work with PostgreSQL? From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Hi, I tried Googling for this but didn't see any recent, definitive statements. I would like to use Helix to manage a Postgres cluster. Are there drivers for this? Is anybody doing it in production? Thanks much, Larry
