The VOTE thread has passed.

I'll continue provisioning the solr-orbit and solr-orbit-workloads git 
repositories and push the baseline code.
We can then create a JIRA umbrella and sub tasks for all the other tasks needed.

Jan

> 1. mai 2026 kl. 15:37 skrev Eric Pugh <[email protected]>:
> 
> I want to share with the community that earlier this week I had the 
> opportunity to visit Kevin and team and talk about Solr Orbit fitting thier 
> specific use case, and I think we have consensus that this solution is how we 
> want to move forward.   I know it will solve my client's needs as well.
> 
> I checked in with Jan, and I think the next step is to get a vote thread on 
> bringing in this codebase as a `solr-orbit` subproject.
> 
> On 2026/04/23 20:42:30 Eric Pugh wrote:
>> Home after some travel...
>> 
>> I think the solr-benchmark-game needs a bit more marinating to see the true 
>> value.   Also, Kevin and (???) did some great analysis on it and pointed out 
>> some big weaknesses to it's approach.
>> 
>> I'm onboard with the solr-orbit plan, and can see how I would use it with my 
>> client to establish the benchmarks needed.
>> 
>> On 2026/04/17 20:38:17 "Kevin Liang (BLOOMBERG/ 919 3RD A) via dev" wrote:
>>> "Solr Orbit" seems a fine name to me.
>>> 
>>> Re: David's point on picking one of search-benchmark-game vs. 
>>> solr-benchmark-fork
>>> 
>>> I'll add my opinion as I've used / made code changes to both and have 
>>> provided this feedback to Eric / Jan.
>>> 
>>> The search-benchmark-game is nice for its simplicity and results 
>>> presentation. It can quickly give you some data points between two versions 
>>> of software. That being said, at best it seems geared more towards 
>>> assessing a library (lucene) than a full distributed system (solr). Its 
>>> feature set is limited and the methodology for executing queries / drawing 
>>> statistical conclusions leaves something to be desired (can expand in 
>>> detail if anyone wants to hear).
>>> 
>>> In contrast, solr-benchmark (OSB fork) is building off a feature set 
>>> constructed over the better part of a decade. It's a much larger codebase 
>>> and a more mature benchmarking framework with much greater capability to do 
>>> different kinds of performance test workloads.
>>> 
>>> Personally I would go with solr-benchmark. Building a web interface on top 
>>> (or hooking up a jenkins build pipeline) can be done. And like we said in 
>>> the meeting, just getting people to run the tool independently and 
>>> publishing their results, even as plain text on the wiki, would be a good 
>>> first step win. 
>>> 
>>> From: [email protected] At: 04/16/26 13:00:14 UTC-4:00To:  
>>> [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: Solr Performance Benchmarking Discussion Page
>>> 
>>> It's not work using Elastic Inc's trademark "Rally" if we can avoid it. 
>>> They 
>>> are known to pursue such violations. And I believe it is a violation of the 
>>> Apache license too. I like "Solr Orbit" :)
>>> 
>>> I'll wait some time to let all voices be heard wrt the various tools and 
>>> which 
>>> to pick going forward, then if everyone rallies (pun intended) around 
>>> solr-benchmark, then we can proceed.
>>> 
>>> Jan
>>> 
>>>> 16. apr. 2026 kl. 14:36 skrev David Smiley <[email protected]>:
>>>> 
>>>> Why avoid the word "Rally" if that's its foundation/lineage?  If we
>>>> want to avoid risk of using that word, then we simply ask
>>>> ElasticSearch with our proposed name for our fork that includes that
>>>> word.
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 3:37 AM Jan Høydahl <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks for presenting the solr-benchmark tool on the community meetup
>>> yesterday Kevin.
>>>>> I'll encourage others to take it for a spin. There are rough edges but you
>>> should be able to get some results.
>>>>> 
>>>>> We also discussed the potential for moving the tool from my github space 
>>>>> to
>>> asf.
>>>>> That would make it easier for the community to contribute and collaborate.
>>> But it requires 2-3 PMC members interested in being maintainers.
>>>>> If we make it an asf repo, David noted that we are not required to publish
>>> official releases until we feel compelled to do so.
>>>>> Also, David noted the naming collision with the internal solr-benchmark
>>> module. How about "solr-orbit", which is a homage to "Rally" (orbiting the 
>>> race 
>>> track) but in our Solar-system universe :)
>>>>> 
>>>>> As a next step I'll start a VOTE thread for accepting the two repos into
>>> ASF. The results of the VOTE will guide further action.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jan
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 8. mars 2026 kl. 20:42 skrev Jan Høydahl <[email protected]>:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I read through the benchmarking wiki page today. It was well written,
>>> thanks Kevin for reviving this effort, and in such a structured way!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> There's a renewed energy around benchmarking, and more tooling options 
>>>>>> than
>>> ever. So to add to the mix I'm presenting yet another one 🤣🤣, "Solr 
>>> Benchmark":
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://github.com/janhoy/solr-benchmark
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> You may quickly notice that this looks familiar. And yes, it is a 
>>>>>> fork/port
>>> of Rally/OpensearchBenchmark, ported to provision and benchmark Solr 
>>> clusters, 
>>> using the same datasets and "workload"s as those tools.
>>>>>> I first tried to start a fork 2 or 3 years ago but it stranded. I made a
>>> new effort using LLM agents and this first working version was prepared in 
>>> a 
>>> few afternoons.
>>>>>> Even if the foundation is solid and proven over many years, this initial
>>> port is not complete, view it as a MVP and WIP. Only one workload / dataset 
>>> is 
>>> ported so far. Take it for a spin...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'll defer to Kevin to add it to the tools list of the wiki and continue
>>> the analysis effort with this as one of the contenders.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Jan
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 2. mars 2026 kl. 17:13 skrev Kevin Liang (BLOOMBERG/ 919 3RD A)
>>> <[email protected]>:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Given the recent interest and discussion around Solr performance
>>> benchmarking, I figured it would be useful to 1) centralize the discussion 
>>> and 
>>> 2) bring it to a long-lived format (that's not email). So with that, I have 
>>> started 
>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SOLR/Solr+Performance+Benchmarking
>>>  
>>> (I figured there's still more discussion to be had before it becomes a SIP 
>>> with 
>>> technical requirements).
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I encourage anyone and everyone who is interested to provide their input
>>> (comment or edit). This is a community initiative, and shouldn't be limited 
>>> by 
>>> me or any biases I may have. Hopefully people find this useful in moving 
>>> the 
>>> discussion forward.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -Kevin
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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