Just occurred to me: Maybe no adjective for the current zookeeper based mode just "Solr" and the non-zookeeper (legacy/uncoordinated/clumsy) could be Solr "Lite" which has a nice pun and very much fits with reduced functionality with less infrastructure.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 11:22 AM Gus Heck <[email protected]> wrote: > WRT the name "uncoordinated mode" I fear it could be read (or even become > known as) as "clumsy mode" which is humorous but possibly not what we're > going for :) I'd perhaps suggest Cluster mode for SolrCloud though I'm not > entirely sure if Legacy Solr (in curren parlance) is not a "cluster" > too, cluster being a somewhat vague term. However Clustered Mode and Legacy > Mode seem more on target. I think "Legacy" could be changed since we're not > really planning on abandoning it (are we?), but the adjective there SHOULD > communicate reduced functionality because there are plenty of features that > are cloud (cluster) only. > > -Gus > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 10:27 AM 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 >> > > > -- > http://www.needhamsoftware.com (work) > http://www.the111shift.com (play) > -- http://www.needhamsoftware.com (work) http://www.the111shift.com (play)
