+1 Cassandra. These names are very appropriate. I'm glad we'll get rid of "SolrCloud" name.
On Thu, 6 Aug, 2020, 7:57 pm Cassandra Targett, <[email protected]> wrote: > The work in SOLR-14702 has left us with some awkward phrasing (which is > still better than what it was) around non-SolrCloud clusters that I've > offered to help fix. > > I think we've struggled for years to find a good name for non-SolrCloud > clusters and we've used a number of variations: "legacy replication" (which > it isn't, since PULL replicas use the same thing), "Standalone mode" (which > it isn't because it's a cluster), now "leader/follower mode" (which could > be confusing because SolrCloud has leaders). > > Yesterday I thought about what really differentiates a SolrCloud cluster > and a non-SolrCloud cluster and it occurred to me that a key difference is > the former is coordinated by ZooKeeper, while the latter is not. That led > me to think that perhaps "coordinated mode" can someday be a better > replacement for the term "SolrCloud", while "uncoordinated mode" could be a > replacement today for all these other non-SolrCloud mode variations. > > I've opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-14716 and will > create a branch for work in progress, but before I forge too far ahead, I > want to draw attention to it first to give a chance for discussion so we're > in agreement. > > Thanks, > Cassandra >
