Very interested in this space. A personal area of interest with Vector search in Solr for me is to be able to utilize a local language model instead of having to make remote API calls for text-to-vector conversion. Have tinkered with creating a custom UpdateRequestProcessor for this using ONXX runtime and a couple other approaches, but I am sure with collaboration from the community, there is a lot of room for improvement.
+1 to Ishan's suggestion of keeping it simple and keeping the communications on the dev list itself. Just like we have a Solr meetup every 3rd Wednesday of the month, to begin with, maybe we could fix a day of the month for dev discussions specific to vector search? And send out a reminder a week before the meetup. That way people who would have "subscribed" to a focus group would anyway attend, and the rest won't miss out on an opportunity to participate or be an audience if they so wish. I am happy to volunteer for sending out this communication if it helps. - Rahul On Mon, Jun 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM Ishan Chattopadhyaya < ichattopadhy...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am very much interested in the area and we have a plan towards making > Solr suitable for vector search applications. > > > If you > > would be interested in this, please reply to this email via the email > > address you would like for communications going forward. > > However, I think we should keep the communications on this list itself, > given how we have communicated in the past. > > > On Tue, 3 Jun, 2025, 12:59 am David Smiley, <dsmi...@apache.org> wrote: > > > I love seeing this initiative/collaboration come from new community > > members! > > > > Note that we have a Roadmap and it doesn't even have the word "vector" on > > it https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SOLR/Roadmap > > IMO Updating this roadmap seems to me a useful outcome of this > > collaboration. > > > > Another possible task is to create JIRA issues and use consistent JIRA > > metadata for "vector" stuff. I think the JIRA "component" makes sense -- > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/SOLR?selectedItem=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:components-page > > -- there is a bit of grooming to be done in our components by our > > committers (we have permission). > > > > Should these meetings be organized just like the monthly meetups? There > > doesn't have to be a Confluence page, however IMO the other aspects of > the > > ceremony are useful -- publicize when the meeting happens and post a > > summary somewhere (e.g. dev list) for those that didn't attend. If this > > isn't done, a bunch of people may feel left out just simply wanting to > know > > at a high level what's happening... but don't necessarily want to attend > > the meeting. Some months, that applies to me! > > > > ~ David > > > > On Mon, Jun 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM Kevin Liang (BLOOMBERG/ 919 3RD A) < > > klian...@bloomberg.net> wrote: > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > Alessandro and I were recently chatting about the current state of > dense > > > vector search in Solr, as well as potential directions going forward. > One > > > could argue whether there is a gap in the DVS feature space between > Solr > > > and other vector DB peers, however we both agree that one of the > factors > > > possibly limiting development in this area for Solr is lack of > > visibility / > > > coordination amongst contributors. > > > > > > To help encourage new improvements in this area, we would like to gauge > > > interest in a recurring group meeting to discuss dense vector and > > semantic > > > search. This would be an open invite to anyone who is currently working > > on > > > DVS, using DVS, or simply just interested in DVS/AI powered search. If > > you > > > would be interested in this, please reply to this email via the email > > > address you would like for communications going forward. > > > > > > Since several of us in the Solr community will be attending Berlin > > > Buzzwords in 2 weeks time, we aim to plan our first informal meeting at > > the > > > conference in-person. After that communication/gathering can be monthly > > or > > > ad-hoc depending on interest. > > > > > > Thanks all, > > > > > > Kevin > > >
