Helix is a generic cluster management framework used for the automatic management of partitioned, replicated and distributed resources hosted on a cluster of nodes. Helix provides the following features:
Helix manages the state of a resource by supporting a pluggable distributed state machine. One can define the state machine table along with the constraints for each state.
Here are some common state models used:
We currently use Helix to manage our search-as-a-service clusters hosting multiple search applications, Databus, our data change capture component, and Espresso, our indexed, timeline-consistent, document-oriented data store.
Apache Helix is available for download.
