Hello all, As many of you may be familiar with, there has been a growing desire among the Solr dev community for a standardized performance benchmarking tool. Such a tool, and the benchmarking results data it would enable, would help answer questions regarding Solr's expected performance and ensure consistently improving performance between versions.
This thread is a vote on creating a public ASF repo for "Solr Orbit", a fork of OpenSearch Benchmark (OSB) that Jan Høydahl augmented for Solr (which was demo'd at the most recent Solr community meetup). For context, OSB is itself a fork of Elastic's benchmark tool called Rally. Both projects are actively used to publish public benchmark numbers by their respective organizations, and both have seen many years of open-source development under Apache-2.0 license. The Solr version of the project, currently hosted on Jan's github, can be found here. I encourage you to test it out. A passing vote means: * Creating two github repos github.com/apache/solr-orbit and github.com/apache/solr-orbit-workloads under current Solr ownership * Importing the current OSB code (clean history) before applying Jan's Solr changes on top with regular development to continue as usual afterwards * PMC to conduct legal check and IP clearance Please vote on initiating a new solr-orbit sub-project under the Apache Solr project: [] +1 Accept the proposal --- I support creating these repositories [] 0 No strong opinion [] -1 Object --- Provide a reason This is a procedural vote with simple majority. Votes from PMC members are binding; votes from community members are welcome. The vote will remain open for at least 3 business days, closing no earlier than: 2026-05-16 20:00 UTC The vote result will guide further action - Kevin References: * Performance benchmarking solr wiki page * Previous benchmarking discussion thread * Jan's fork of OSB for Solr * Original OSB project
