Re: using dense vector search with Solr

2023-03-06 Thread Alessandro Benedetti
Hi Till, it's great to see how this new feature is impacting the community! I and we(as a community of committers) are actively working on various new contributions related to the neural search domain. Some minor ones will come soon, keep an eye on 9.2 or 9.3 . In terms of bigger contributions suc

Re: using dense vector search with Solr

2023-02-23 Thread Derek C
Hi Till & all, We are using KNN search in a SOLR cloud 9.0.0 cluster. We had played around with Spotify's Annoy but, apart from obviously # of documents vs memory size issues, the really big thing about KNN in SOLR is that we can mix queries (I'm still not 100% on how this really works because we

using dense vector search with Solr

2023-02-23 Thread Till Kinstler
Hi, I've been playing with "neural" / dense vector search in Solr 9 a bit and find it very promising. Currently I am calculating the vectors outside of Solr at indexing and search time with a bunch of scripts using NLP models (text in, vectors out...). Especially at search time, that's not exa