[LUCENE-9855] Reconsider names for ANN related format and APIs

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 9.0
• Fix Version/s: 9.0
• Component/s: core/codecs
• Labels: vector-based-search
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Tomoko Uchida
• Reporter: Tomoko Uchida
• Created: 21/Mar/21 23:59
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 16:18
• Resolved: 24/Jul/21 03:05

Description

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

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #65
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #66
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #207
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #218