Thanks for a clarifying description. That’s how I think about it too. I’m ok with using both in a consistent way, but I’m also happy if we just go back to “standalone” everywhere. I.e you can have a cluster of standalone solr nodes. They each stand alone and know nothing about who they are in the cluster.
Jan Høydahl > 15. okt. 2026 kl. 01:18 skrev David Smiley <[email protected]>: > > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
