Project Summary
Helix is a generic cluster management framework used for automatic management of partitioned, replicated and distributed resources hosted on a cluster of nodes. Helix provides the following features:
* Automatic assignment of resource/partition to nodes
* Node failure detection and recovery
* Dynamic addition of Resources
* Dynamic addition of nodes to the cluster
* Pluggable distributed state machine to manage the state of a resource via state transitions
* Automatic load balancing and throttling of transitions
In a Nutshell, Apache Helix...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a large development team
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took an estimated 54 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in June, 2011
ending with its most recent commit 2 days ago
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