On Fri, 5 Sept 2025 at 00:41, Atita Arora <atitaar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Absolutely love this list , Ishaan. > > I recently evaluated and been using Spring AI for extending and enabling > some of the mentioned features and was sad that there are no native > integrations for Solr pretty much with any standard framework. > There is a lot Solr needs to catch up on. > > Btw, Why do I not read anything 'agentic' in the list ;) > Would love to discuss what you have in mind here. This area is still new and my growing knowledge is still very limited. :-) My thoughts are that agents can talk to a Solr MCP server, and Aditya has already started something here. (https://github.com/adityamparikh/solr-mcp -server) Then, I also had something like a smart CLI assistant in mind (started with a barebones animated screen at the moment, as a weekend hack: https://github.com/SearchScale/solr-assistant). > -Atita > > On Thu, 4 Sept 2025, 20:43 Ishan Chattopadhyaya, < > ichattopadhy...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > Here's my wishlist for Solr 10, to make Solr claw back the lost/losing > > mindshare amongst developers and AI practitioners. > > > > Here's what I think Solr 10 release should have (in addition to whatever > we > > already have): > > > > ** Vector Search / AI* > > - GPU based HNSW indexing > > - Local embeddings generation > > - Multi-vector fields > > - Visualization, metrics, recipes > > - Easy integration with storage and inference platforms like Sagemaker, > > Nemo, AWS S3 Vectors and everything else > > - Stretch goal: Global vectors indexing support (like IVF family of > > algorithms) > > - First party MCP support > > > > ** General* > > - Official client libraries in Python, Rust, Go, etc. > > - Something akin to Kibana / OpenSearch dashboards > > - A new modern UI with feature completeness > > - Entries in every meaningful AI leaderboard out there, preferably at par > > with other Lucene based search engines > > - Tons of more examples and live demos > > > > > > ** User experience *- Fix naming everywhere (if you know Solr, you know > > what I mean) > > - No confusion around various modes of Solr > > - Clear documentation of the API > > > > We may be able to achieve these, or we might not be able to. If we work > > towards these goals (or some of these), these should be achievable. We > will > > be in an excellent position with regard to earning back respect among the > > community and placing it at par or above search and AI engines. Solr 10 > is > > a great time to hit these goals. > > > > If someone has ideas (no matter how crazy, hard, or exploratory) on what > > else could be good to have, please help us with suggestions. > > > > Thanks and regards, > > Ishan > > > > > > [image: SearchScale] > > *Ishan Chattopadhyaya* > > *Search Consultant, SearchScale* > > > > is...@searchscale.com > > >
