I feel we might be trying to get a consensus on personal preferences here. Having said that, in my previous job and the current one, I and everybody around me has always referred to either “Solr running in standalone mode” or “Solr running in SolrCloud mode”.
Whenever there is use of the term “user-managed” my mind translates it to “standalone” anyway before digesting it, so there is that one cognitive jump in between. If we are collecting opinions, “standalone” is the least ambiguous, traditionally well understood term and so why bother “fixing” something that is not broken? aka my preference would be to standardize on “standalone”. - Rahul On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 7:18 PM David Smiley <[email protected]> wrote: > I wish to seek a nomenclature decision. I make the following assertions: > > (A) a Solr *node* has two modes: > * SolrCloud > * standalone > > (B) a Solr *cluster* has two types: > * SolrCloud > * user managed > > Thus the words "standalone" and "user managed" have their place depending > on context. There is too much precedent for the word "standalone" to > ignore it, and it's a fine word for the context in which I propose it > here. On the other hand, it's not a suitable word to characterize a > cluster, and hence we have the term "user managed" that Cassandra > championed. > > Consequence (just listing one for now): > * When you start a Solr node, the flag "--user-managed" shall be renamed > to "--standalone". > Related PR under review now: https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/5121 > > Perhaps Eric might argue for "--solrcloud-enabled=false" as he has sought > standardizing on all binary decisions that could be expressed with an > "enabled" suffix to do so... albeit I think in this case, it doesn't look > as nice to me. But I don't mind. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
