[jira] [Commented] (LUCENE-9855) Reconsider names for ANN related format and APIs

["Julie Tibshirani (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Julie Tibshirani commented on LUCENE-9855:
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I noticed recently we still had this blocker left (I had missed it because I filtered issues only on 'Opened'!)

It seems [~jpountz] and I have a different intuition about {{NeighborsFormat}}! My only real suggestion is that 'vectors' appears somewhere in the name -- this feels like it accurately describes the data and will match user's expectations. Any of these names seem like they'd work to me: {{VectorNeighborsFormat}}, {{NumericVectorsFormat}}, {{DenseVectorsFormat}}. It naming proves too difficult I guess we could also fall back to {{VectorsFormat}} for now, making sure it's at least plural?

> Reconsider names for ANN related format and APIs
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-9855
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-9855
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: core/codecs
>    Affects Versions: main (9.0)
>            Reporter: Tomoko Uchida
>            Priority: Blocker
>          Time Spent: 40m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> There is some discussion about the codec name for ann search.
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3a6fa29810a1e85779de72562169e72d927d5a5dd2f9ea97705b8b2e%40%3Cdev.lucene.apache.org%3E
> Main points here are 1) use plural form for consistency, and 2) use more specific name for ann search (second point could be optional).
> A few alternatives were proposed:
> - VectorsFormat
> - VectorValuesFormat
> - NeighborsFormat
> - DenseVectorsFormat



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