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Chris Coutinho 4a3b80cb98 fix: Update DCR token_type tests for OIDC app changes
The Nextcloud OIDC app has updated token_type parameter values:
- Changed from "Bearer" → "opaque" for opaque tokens
- Changed from "JWT" → "jwt" for JWT tokens

Updated test_dcr_token_type.py to use lowercase token_type values:
- token_type="jwt" for JWT-formatted tokens
- token_type="opaque" for opaque/bearer tokens

This fixes test failures where tests were using the old "Bearer" and
"JWT" (uppercase) values which are no longer recognized by the OIDC app.

Fixes test: test_dcr_respects_bearer_token_type

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Chris Coutinho fc3ab8d0ac docs: Add Ollama embeddings capacity analysis and investigation
Documents Ollama embedding service evaluation for ADR-003 semantic search
implementation, including performance benchmarks and capacity analysis.

## Documentation

### Ollama Capacity Analysis
- Performance metrics for ollama.internal.coutinho.io
- Model: nomic-embed-text:latest
- Embedding generation benchmarks (single, batch, parallel)
- Latency analysis and throughput measurements
- Resource usage and capacity recommendations

### Ollama Embeddings Investigation
- Evaluation of Ollama for semantic search use case
- Comparison with other embedding providers
- Integration considerations with ADR-003 architecture
- Deployment scenarios and operational requirements

## Key Findings

 Ollama instance operational and performing well
 Reasonable latency for small-medium workloads
 Good parallelism support
 Suitable for development and small production deployments

## References

- ADR-003: Vector Database Semantic Search
- Ollama API documentation
- nomic-embed-text model specifications

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# Ollama Capacity Analysis: ollama.internal.coutinho.io
**Date**: 2025-10-30
**Model**: nomic-embed-text:latest
**Test Location**: From nextcloud-mcp-server host
## Summary
**Ollama instance is operational and performing well**
- Embedding generation working correctly
- Reasonable latency for small-medium workloads
- Good parallelism support
- Suitable for development and small production deployments
## Test Results
### Model Configuration
```json
{
"model": "nomic-embed-text",
"dimensions": 768,
"status": "operational"
}
```
### Performance Metrics
#### 1. Single Embedding Latency
**Result**: ~553ms per embedding
- **Total time**: 0.553 seconds
- **Includes**: Network + processing + model inference
- **Quality**: Full 768-dimensional vector
**Analysis**:
- Higher than bare-metal benchmarks (~100ms) due to network latency
- Acceptable for interactive search queries
- Within expected range for remote Ollama instance
#### 2. Batch Processing (5 items)
**Result**: ~1.02 seconds for 5 embeddings
- **Per-item average**: 204ms
- **Throughput**: ~4.9 embeddings/sec
- **Batch efficiency**: 2.7x faster than sequential
**Analysis**:
- Good batching efficiency (2.7x speedup vs 5x theoretical)
- Optimal for background indexing
- Network overhead amortized across batch
#### 3. Batch Processing (20 items)
**Result**: ~6.71 seconds for 20 embeddings
- **Per-item average**: 336ms
- **Throughput**: ~3.0 embeddings/sec
- **Batch efficiency**: 1.65x faster than sequential
**Analysis**:
- Performance degrades slightly with larger batches
- Still faster than sequential processing
- Matches reported Ollama behavior (quality issues at batch >16)
- **Recommendation**: Keep batch size ≤16 for best quality
#### 4. Concurrent Requests (5 parallel)
**Result**: ~1.27 seconds for 5 parallel requests
- **Effective parallelism**: ~4x speedup (vs 2.77s sequential)
- **Per-request average**: 254ms
- **Throughput**: ~3.9 requests/sec
**Analysis**:
- Excellent parallelism support
- Server handles concurrent requests efficiently
- Network and compute overlap effectively
- Good for multi-user scenarios
## Capacity Planning
### Current Performance Profile
| Metric | Value | Rating |
|--------|-------|--------|
| Single embedding latency | 553ms | ⚠️ Moderate |
| Batch (5) throughput | 4.9/sec | ✅ Good |
| Batch (20) throughput | 3.0/sec | ⚠️ Moderate |
| Concurrent throughput | 3.9/sec | ✅ Good |
| Network latency | ~300-400ms | ⚠️ Significant |
### Bottleneck Analysis
**Primary Bottleneck**: Network latency (~300-400ms per request)
- Model inference: ~100-200ms (estimated)
- Network round-trip: ~300-400ms (measured overhead)
- **Impact**: 60-70% of total latency is network
**Secondary Bottleneck**: CPU/GPU capacity (unknown hardware)
- Batch performance degrades at >16 items
- Suggests resource constraints
- Likely CPU-only (no GPU metrics available)
### Recommended Usage Patterns
#### ✅ **Excellent For:**
**1. Background Indexing**
- Use batch size of 10-15 items
- Expected throughput: 3-5 embeddings/sec
- **10,000 notes**: ~30-55 minutes to index
- **1,000 notes**: ~3-5 minutes to index
**2. Interactive Search**
- Single query embedding: ~550ms
- Acceptable for user-facing search
- Add 100-200ms for vector search + verification
- **Total search time**: ~650-750ms (reasonable UX)
**3. Multi-User Development**
- 5-10 concurrent users: Comfortable
- Good parallelism support
- Network latency dominates (shared)
#### ⚠️ **Consider Alternatives For:**
**1. Real-Time Applications**
- Sub-100ms latency requirements
- High-frequency queries (>10/sec sustained)
- Consider: Local embeddings or Infinity
**2. Large-Scale Batch Processing**
- >100,000 documents to index
- >10 embeddings/sec sustained
- Consider: GPU-accelerated TEI
**3. Production with >50 Users**
- High concurrent load
- Latency sensitivity
- Consider: Dedicated embedding service
### Deployment Scenarios
#### Scenario 1: Development Environment
**Profile**:
- 1-3 developers
- 1,000-5,000 notes total
- Occasional searches/indexing
**Verdict**: ✅ **Perfect fit**
- Initial index: ~5-15 minutes (one-time)
- Incremental updates: <1 minute
- Search latency: Acceptable
- No infrastructure changes needed
**Configuration**:
```bash
OLLAMA_URL=https://ollama.internal.coutinho.io
OLLAMA_MODEL=nomic-embed-text
VECTOR_SYNC_INTERVAL=600 # 10 minutes
VECTOR_SYNC_BATCH_SIZE=10
```
#### Scenario 2: Small Production (10-20 users)
**Profile**:
- 10-20 active users
- 10,000-50,000 notes total
- 50-200 searches/day
- Nightly incremental indexing
**Verdict**: ✅ **Suitable with optimizations**
- Initial index: 1-3 hours (run overnight)
- Incremental: 5-15 minutes/night
- Search: Acceptable for most users
- Monitor network latency
**Configuration**:
```bash
OLLAMA_URL=https://ollama.internal.coutinho.io
OLLAMA_MODEL=nomic-embed-text
VECTOR_SYNC_INTERVAL=86400 # Daily at night
VECTOR_SYNC_BATCH_SIZE=12 # Conservative for quality
SEARCH_TIMEOUT_MS=1000 # Account for 550ms latency
```
**Optimizations**:
- Run sync during off-hours
- Cache query embeddings (common searches)
- Use hybrid search (keyword + semantic)
#### Scenario 3: Medium Production (50-100 users)
**Profile**:
- 50-100 active users
- 100,000+ notes
- 500-1000 searches/day
- Real-time indexing desired
**Verdict**: ⚠️ **Marginal - monitor closely**
- Initial index: 5-10 hours
- Search latency: May feel slow for some users
- Concurrent load: Approaching limits
- **Recommendation**: Plan migration to Infinity
**Configuration**:
```bash
OLLAMA_URL=https://ollama.internal.coutinho.io
OLLAMA_MODEL=nomic-embed-text
VECTOR_SYNC_INTERVAL=3600 # Hourly
VECTOR_SYNC_BATCH_SIZE=10
SEMANTIC_WEIGHT=0.5 # Rely more on keyword search
SEARCH_TIMEOUT_MS=2000 # Generous timeout
```
**Migration Path**:
- Start with Ollama
- Monitor latency metrics
- When p95 latency >1s, migrate to Infinity
- Keep Ollama as fallback
#### Scenario 4: Large Production (>100 users)
**Profile**:
- >100 active users
- >500,000 notes
- >1000 searches/day
- Real-time expectations
**Verdict**: ❌ **Not recommended**
- Latency too high for scale
- Throughput insufficient
- Network becomes bottleneck
- **Recommendation**: Use Infinity or TEI from start
## Network Latency Optimization
### Current Overhead: ~300-400ms
**If MCP server runs closer to Ollama**:
```
Same VPC/network: ~1-5ms (300-400ms savings!)
Same host: <1ms (300-400ms savings!)
```
### Recommendation
**Option A: Co-locate MCP server with Ollama**
- Reduces latency from 550ms → 150-200ms
- 2.5-3x improvement
- Makes Ollama competitive with cloud APIs
**Option B: Keep separate (current)**
- Simpler deployment
- Better security isolation
- Accept 550ms latency
**Option C: Add Infinity container to MCP server**
- Best of both worlds
- Use Infinity for speed (local)
- Fallback to Ollama if needed
## Capacity Estimates
### Indexing Capacity
**Sustained Throughput**: 3-4 embeddings/sec (conservative)
| Document Count | Index Time | Notes |
|----------------|------------|-------|
| 1,000 | 4-5 min | Quick |
| 5,000 | 20-25 min | Reasonable |
| 10,000 | 40-50 min | Acceptable |
| 50,000 | 3.5-4.5 hours | Overnight job |
| 100,000 | 7-9 hours | Long batch |
| 500,000 | 35-45 hours | Not recommended |
**Incremental Updates** (10% change daily):
- 1,000 docs: ~30 sec
- 10,000 docs: ~5 min
- 50,000 docs: ~25 min
### Search Capacity
**Query Latency Budget**:
- Embedding: 550ms
- Vector search: 50-100ms
- Permission verification: 50-100ms
- **Total**: 650-750ms
**Concurrent Users** (assuming 1 search every 5 minutes):
- 10 users: 2 queries/min → Comfortable
- 50 users: 10 queries/min → Near limit
- 100 users: 20 queries/min → Over capacity
**Peak Load** (all users search at once):
- Parallelism: ~4 concurrent
- Queue time: Proportional to position
- 10 simultaneous: ~1.5-2 sec for last user
- 50 simultaneous: ~7-10 sec for last user
## Recommendations
### Immediate Actions (Development)
1. **✅ Use Ollama as-is**
- Current setup is perfect for dev/testing
- No changes needed
- Start building semantic search
2. **Configuration**:
```bash
OLLAMA_URL=https://ollama.internal.coutinho.io
OLLAMA_MODEL=nomic-embed-text
VECTOR_SYNC_BATCH_SIZE=10
```
3. **Add Monitoring**:
```python
# Track these metrics
- embedding_latency_seconds (histogram)
- embedding_batch_size (gauge)
- embedding_errors_total (counter)
```
### Short-Term (Small Production)
1. **Optimize Batching**:
- Use batch size 10-12 (quality sweet spot)
- Process during off-hours
- Implement incremental sync
2. **Add Caching**:
```python
# Cache common query embeddings
@lru_cache(maxsize=1000)
async def embed_with_cache(query: str):
return await ollama.embed(query)
```
3. **Monitor Metrics**:
- P50, P95, P99 latency
- Throughput (embeddings/sec)
- Error rates
### Medium-Term (If Scaling Up)
1. **Add Infinity Container** (when >50 users or latency issues):
```yaml
services:
infinity:
image: michaelf34/infinity:latest
# Local to MCP server - ~10-20ms latency
```
2. **Implement Tiered Fallback**:
```
Infinity (local, fast) → Ollama (remote, slower) → Local model
```
3. **Load Testing**:
- Simulate 50-100 concurrent users
- Measure actual throughput limits
- Identify breaking points
### Long-Term (Enterprise Scale)
1. **Migrate to TEI Cluster** (when >100 users):
- GPU-accelerated
- Horizontal scaling
- <20ms latency
2. **Consider Managed Services**:
- Pinecone, Qdrant Cloud
- Removes operational burden
- Better SLAs
## Testing Recommendations
### Load Testing Script
```bash
# Test sustained load
for i in {1..100}; do
curl -s https://ollama.internal.coutinho.io/api/embed \
-d "{\"model\": \"nomic-embed-text\", \"input\": \"Test $i\"}" &
# Rate limit: 5 concurrent
if [ $(($i % 5)) -eq 0 ]; then
wait
sleep 1
fi
done
```
### Metrics to Collect
1. **Latency Distribution**:
- P50 (median)
- P95 (acceptable)
- P99 (outliers)
2. **Throughput**:
- Embeddings/second
- Peak vs sustained
3. **Error Rates**:
- Timeouts
- Server errors
- Quality issues
## Conclusion
**Your Ollama instance is ready for development and small production use!**
**Current Capacity**:
- ✅ Development: Unlimited
- ✅ Small prod (10-20 users, 10k docs): Comfortable
- ⚠️ Medium prod (50 users, 50k docs): Monitoring needed
- ❌ Large prod (>100 users): Migrate to Infinity/TEI
**Key Strengths**:
- Fully operational
- Good parallelism
- Acceptable latency for most use cases
- Easy to integrate
**Key Limitations**:
- Network latency adds 300-400ms overhead
- Batch quality issues at >16 items
- Limited scalability beyond 50 users
**Recommendation**:
Start using Ollama immediately for development. Add monitoring and plan for Infinity when you approach 50 users or experience latency issues. The abstraction layer in ADR-003 makes migration seamless.
**Next Steps**:
1. Configure MCP server with Ollama URL
2. Implement semantic search tools
3. Add basic monitoring
4. Test with real workload
5. Scale up as needed
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# Ollama Embeddings Investigation
**Date**: 2025-10-30
**Status**: Recommendation for Integration
## Executive Summary
Ollama provides a **local, self-hosted embedding solution** that is excellent for **development and small-scale deployments** but has **performance limitations** compared to specialized embedding inference engines (TEI, Infinity).
**Recommendation**: Include Ollama as **Tier 2 fallback** in our embedding strategy (after cloud APIs, before local sentence-transformers), prioritizing ease of setup over maximum performance.
## Overview
Ollama is primarily known as a local LLM runner but added embedding model support in version 0.1.26, making it a convenient option for generating vector embeddings without external API dependencies.
### Key Characteristics
- **Local & Self-Hosted**: No external API calls, full privacy
- **Easy Setup**: Single binary, simple model downloads (`ollama pull nomic-embed-text`)
- **Unified Platform**: Same tool for both LLMs and embeddings
- **OpenAI Compatible**: `/v1/embeddings` endpoint for drop-in replacement
- **Multi-Platform**: Linux, macOS, Windows support
- **GPU Support**: CUDA, ROCm, Metal acceleration
## API Details
### Endpoint Structure
**New API** (recommended):
```bash
POST http://localhost:11434/api/embed
```
**OpenAI Compatible**:
```bash
POST http://localhost:11434/v1/embeddings
```
**Legacy API** (deprecated):
```bash
POST http://localhost:11434/api/embeddings
```
### Request Format
**Single Text Embedding**:
```json
{
"model": "nomic-embed-text",
"input": "Text to embed"
}
```
**Batch Embedding** (since v0.2.0):
```json
{
"model": "nomic-embed-text",
"input": [
"First text to embed",
"Second text to embed",
"Third text to embed"
]
}
```
### Response Format
```json
{
"model": "nomic-embed-text",
"embeddings": [
[0.123, -0.456, 0.789, ...], // 768 dimensions for nomic-embed-text
[0.234, -0.567, 0.890, ...]
]
}
```
### Python Integration
```python
import ollama
# Single embedding
response = ollama.embed(
model='nomic-embed-text',
input='Text to embed'
)
embedding = response['embeddings'][0]
# Batch embeddings (more efficient)
response = ollama.embed(
model='nomic-embed-text',
input=[
'First text',
'Second text',
'Third text'
]
)
embeddings = response['embeddings']
```
## Available Models
### 1. nomic-embed-text (Recommended)
**Specifications**:
- **Parameters**: 137M
- **Dimensions**: 768
- **Context Length**: 8,192 tokens (2K effective)
- **Size**: 274MB
- **Architecture**: BERT-based
**Performance**:
- Outperforms OpenAI `text-embedding-ada-002` and `text-embedding-3-small`
- Excellent for long-context tasks
- Strong general-purpose performance
**Use Cases**:
- General RAG applications
- Long document processing
- Semantic search
- Document clustering
**Pull Command**:
```bash
ollama pull nomic-embed-text
```
### 2. mxbai-embed-large
**Specifications**:
- **Parameters**: 334M
- **Dimensions**: 1,024
- **Context Length**: 512 tokens
- **Architecture**: BERT-large optimized
**Performance**:
- Claims to outperform commercial models
- Higher precision for complex queries
- Best quality but slower
**Use Cases**:
- High-precision semantic search
- Enterprise knowledge bases
- Multilingual content
**Pull Command**:
```bash
ollama pull mxbai-embed-large
```
### 3. all-minilm
**Specifications**:
- **Parameters**: 23M
- **Dimensions**: 384
- **Context Length**: 256 tokens
- **Size**: Smallest footprint
**Performance**:
- Fastest processing speed
- Good for sentence-level tasks
- Limited context window
**Use Cases**:
- Real-time applications
- Resource-constrained environments
- High-throughput scenarios
- Development/testing
**Pull Command**:
```bash
ollama pull all-minilm
```
## Performance Benchmarks
### Throughput Comparison
| Hardware | Model | Batch Size | Throughput | Notes |
|----------|-------|------------|------------|-------|
| RTX 4090 (24GB) | nomic-embed-text | 256 | 12,450 tok/sec | GPU-accelerated |
| RTX 4090 (24GB) | mxbai-embed-large | 128 | 8,920 tok/sec | GPU-accelerated |
| Intel i9-13900K (CPU) | nomic-embed-text | 32 | 3,250 tok/sec | CPU-only |
| Intel i9-13900K (CPU) | mxbai-embed-large | 16 | 2,180 tok/sec | CPU-only |
### Latency Comparison
**Single Request Latency** (RTX 4060):
- Ollama: ~99ms
- TEI: ~20ms (5x faster)
- Infinity: ~30-40ms (2.5-3x faster)
**Batch Processing**:
- Optimal batch size: 32-64 (model dependent)
- Performance degrades with batches >16 (quality issues reported)
- 2x slower than direct sentence-transformers usage
### Engine Comparison
Based on benchmarks from Baseten (2024):
| Engine | Relative Throughput | Notes |
|--------|---------------------|-------|
| BEI | 9.0x (baseline) | Fastest (proprietary) |
| TEI | 4.5x | Open source, Rust-based |
| Infinity | 3.5x | PyTorch/ONNX optimized |
| vLLM | 3.0x | General LLM inference |
| **Ollama** | **1.0x** | Slowest for embeddings |
**Key Insight**: Ollama is **5-9x slower** than specialized embedding engines but trades performance for ease of use and unified platform.
## Integration Implementation
### Python Client Wrapper
```python
# nextcloud_mcp_server/embeddings/ollama.py
import httpx
from typing import List
class OllamaEmbedding:
"""Ollama embedding provider"""
def __init__(
self,
base_url: str = "http://localhost:11434",
model: str = "nomic-embed-text"
):
self.base_url = base_url.rstrip("/")
self.model = model
self.client = httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=60.0)
# Model dimension mapping
self.dimensions = {
"nomic-embed-text": 768,
"mxbai-embed-large": 1024,
"all-minilm": 384
}
self.dimension = self.dimensions.get(model, 768)
async def embed(self, text: str) -> List[float]:
"""Generate embedding for single text"""
response = await self.client.post(
f"{self.base_url}/api/embed",
json={
"model": self.model,
"input": text
}
)
response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json()
return data["embeddings"][0]
async def embed_batch(
self,
texts: List[str],
batch_size: int = 32
) -> List[List[float]]:
"""
Generate embeddings for multiple texts in batches.
Note: Ollama has reported quality issues with batch sizes >16.
We use batch_size=32 as default but allow configuration.
"""
all_embeddings = []
# Process in chunks to avoid batch size issues
for i in range(0, len(texts), batch_size):
batch = texts[i:i + batch_size]
response = await self.client.post(
f"{self.base_url}/api/embed",
json={
"model": self.model,
"input": batch
}
)
response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json()
all_embeddings.extend(data["embeddings"])
return all_embeddings
async def check_health(self) -> bool:
"""Check if Ollama server is running and model is available"""
try:
# Check if server is up
response = await self.client.get(f"{self.base_url}/api/tags")
response.raise_for_status()
# Check if model is pulled
models = response.json().get("models", [])
model_names = [m["name"] for m in models]
if self.model not in model_names:
raise ValueError(
f"Model '{self.model}' not found. "
f"Run: ollama pull {self.model}"
)
return True
except Exception as e:
raise ConnectionError(f"Ollama health check failed: {e}")
async def close(self):
"""Close HTTP client"""
await self.client.aclose()
```
### Auto-Detection in Embedding Service
```python
# nextcloud_mcp_server/embeddings/service.py
from typing import Optional
import os
import logging
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
class EmbeddingService:
"""Unified embedding service with automatic provider detection"""
def __init__(self):
self.provider = None
self._detect_provider()
def _detect_provider(self):
"""Auto-detect available embedding provider"""
# Tier 1: OpenAI API (best quality)
if os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY"):
from .openai import OpenAIEmbedding
self.provider = OpenAIEmbedding(
model=os.getenv("OPENAI_EMBEDDING_MODEL", "text-embedding-3-small"),
api_key=os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY")
)
logger.info("✓ Using OpenAI embeddings")
return
# Tier 2a: Infinity (optimized self-hosted)
if os.getenv("INFINITY_URL"):
from .infinity import InfinityEmbedding
try:
self.provider = InfinityEmbedding(
url=os.getenv("INFINITY_URL"),
model=os.getenv("EMBEDDING_MODEL", "BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5")
)
logger.info("✓ Using Infinity embeddings (optimized)")
return
except Exception as e:
logger.warning(f"Infinity unavailable: {e}")
# Tier 2b: Ollama (easy self-hosted)
if os.getenv("OLLAMA_URL"):
from .ollama import OllamaEmbedding
try:
self.provider = OllamaEmbedding(
base_url=os.getenv("OLLAMA_URL", "http://localhost:11434"),
model=os.getenv("OLLAMA_MODEL", "nomic-embed-text")
)
# Verify Ollama is running and model is available
import asyncio
asyncio.run(self.provider.check_health())
logger.info("✓ Using Ollama embeddings (easy setup)")
return
except Exception as e:
logger.warning(f"Ollama unavailable: {e}")
# Tier 3: Local model (fallback)
logger.warning("No cloud/hosted embeddings available, using local model")
from .local import LocalEmbedding
self.provider = LocalEmbedding(
model=os.getenv("LOCAL_EMBEDDING_MODEL", "all-MiniLM-L6-v2")
)
logger.info("✓ Using local embeddings (CPU fallback)")
async def embed(self, text: str):
"""Generate embedding for text"""
return await self.provider.embed(text)
async def embed_batch(self, texts: list[str]):
"""Generate embeddings for multiple texts"""
return await self.provider.embed_batch(texts)
@property
def dimension(self) -> int:
"""Get embedding dimension"""
return self.provider.dimension
```
### Docker Compose Configuration
```yaml
services:
# Ollama embedding service
ollama:
image: ollama/ollama:latest
restart: always
ports:
- 127.0.0.1:11434:11434
volumes:
- ollama_models:/root/.ollama
# Optional: GPU support
deploy:
resources:
reservations:
devices:
- driver: nvidia
count: 1
capabilities: [gpu]
# Pull models on startup
entrypoint: ["/bin/sh", "-c"]
command:
- |
ollama serve &
sleep 5
ollama pull nomic-embed-text
wait
# MCP Server with Ollama embeddings
mcp:
build: .
depends_on:
- ollama
environment:
# ... other vars ...
- OLLAMA_URL=http://ollama:11434
- OLLAMA_MODEL=nomic-embed-text
# Vector sync worker
mcp-vector-sync:
build: .
command: ["python", "-m", "nextcloud_mcp_server.sync.vector_indexer"]
depends_on:
- ollama
- qdrant
environment:
# ... other vars ...
- OLLAMA_URL=http://ollama:11434
- OLLAMA_MODEL=nomic-embed-text
volumes:
ollama_models:
```
## Advantages of Ollama
### 1. **Ease of Setup**
```bash
# Install Ollama
curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
# Pull embedding model
ollama pull nomic-embed-text
# Done! API available at localhost:11434
```
No complex configuration, no Docker registries, no model conversion.
### 2. **Privacy & Data Sovereignty**
- All processing happens locally
- No data leaves your infrastructure
- No API keys or external dependencies
- Ideal for sensitive content (medical, legal, financial)
### 3. **Unified Platform**
- Same tool for LLMs and embeddings
- Consistent API across model types
- Single point of management
- Simplified operations
### 4. **Developer Experience**
- Simple API (similar to OpenAI)
- Good documentation
- Active community
- Framework integrations (LangChain, LlamaIndex)
### 5. **Cost**
- Free and open source
- No per-token API costs
- Only infrastructure costs (compute)
### 6. **Model Variety**
Growing library of embedding models:
- nomic-embed-text (general purpose)
- mxbai-embed-large (high quality)
- all-minilm (fast)
- More models added regularly
## Limitations of Ollama
### 1. **Performance**
- **5-9x slower** than specialized engines (TEI, Infinity)
- Not optimized specifically for embedding inference
- Batch processing issues at larger batch sizes (>16)
- Higher latency compared to alternatives
### 2. **Scalability**
- Single-instance deployment (no native clustering)
- Limited concurrent request handling
- Not designed for high-throughput production
- Resource usage per request is higher
### 3. **Batch Processing Issues**
- Quality degradation reported with large batches
- Optimal batch size: 32-64 (conservative)
- Less efficient than specialized engines
- GitHub issues tracking batch problems (#6262)
### 4. **Resource Usage**
- Models stay loaded in memory (VRAM/RAM)
- Higher memory footprint per model
- GPU context switching overhead
- Not as memory-efficient as specialized engines
### 5. **Production Features**
- No built-in load balancing
- Limited monitoring/metrics
- No automatic scaling
- Basic error handling
## Use Case Recommendations
### ✅ **Excellent For:**
1. **Development & Testing**
- Quick setup for prototyping
- Local development environments
- Testing embedding pipelines
2. **Small Deployments**
- <10 users
- <10,000 documents
- Infrequent searches (<100/day)
- Hobbyist/personal projects
3. **Privacy-Critical Applications**
- Medical/healthcare records
- Legal documents
- Financial data
- Air-gapped environments
4. **Unified LLM Stack**
- Projects already using Ollama for LLMs
- Simplified operations
- Consistent tooling
5. **Educational/Learning**
- Teaching RAG concepts
- Learning embeddings
- Hackathons/workshops
### ⚠️ **Consider Alternatives For:**
1. **Production at Scale**
- >100 users
- >100,000 documents
- High query volume (>1000/day)
- Use: TEI or Infinity
2. **Performance-Critical**
- Real-time search (<50ms latency)
- High-throughput batch processing
- Use: TEI with GPU
3. **Enterprise Deployments**
- Need for high availability
- Load balancing requirements
- Advanced monitoring
- Use: Managed services or TEI cluster
4. **Large-Scale Indexing**
- Millions of documents
- Continuous high-volume ingestion
- Use: Infinity or commercial solutions
## Integration Strategy
### Recommended Tier Placement
**Update ADR-003 embedding strategy:**
```
Tier 1: OpenAI API (best quality, requires API key)
↓ fallback
Tier 2a: Infinity (optimized self-hosted, complex setup)
↓ fallback
Tier 2b: Ollama (easy self-hosted, moderate performance) ← NEW
↓ fallback
Tier 3: Local sentence-transformers (CPU fallback, simplest)
```
### Configuration
```bash
# Option 1: Use Infinity (if available)
INFINITY_URL=http://infinity:7997
EMBEDDING_MODEL=BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5
# Option 2: Use Ollama (if Infinity unavailable)
OLLAMA_URL=http://ollama:11434
OLLAMA_MODEL=nomic-embed-text
# Option 3: Use local model (automatic fallback)
# No configuration needed
```
### When to Choose Ollama
**Choose Ollama if**:
- You're already using Ollama for LLMs
- You need privacy/data sovereignty
- You have <10k documents and <100 users
- Ease of setup is more important than max performance
- You're in development/testing phase
**Choose Infinity/TEI if**:
- You need maximum throughput (>1000 embeddings/sec)
- You have >100k documents
- Latency is critical (<50ms)
- You're in production with >100 users
**Choose OpenAI API if**:
- You're okay with cloud dependencies
- You need best-in-class quality
- Cost is not a concern (~$0.02 per 1M tokens)
## Production Deployment Guidance
### Small Production (Ollama Acceptable)
**Profile**:
- 5-20 users
- 1,000-10,000 documents
- 50-200 searches/day
- <2 sec acceptable latency
**Configuration**:
```yaml
ollama:
image: ollama/ollama:latest
deploy:
resources:
limits:
memory: 4GB
cpus: "2.0"
reservations:
devices:
- driver: nvidia # GPU if available
count: 1
capabilities: [gpu]
environment:
- OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL=2 # Concurrent requests
```
**Expected Performance**:
- Embedding latency: 100-200ms
- Throughput: 5-10 embeddings/sec
- Memory: 2-3GB (model loaded)
### Medium Production (Use Infinity/TEI)
**Profile**:
- 20-200 users
- 10,000-1M documents
- 500-5,000 searches/day
- <500ms acceptable latency
**Recommendation**: Migrate to Infinity or TEI
```yaml
infinity:
image: michaelf34/infinity:latest
# Better throughput and latency
```
### Large Production (Use Specialized Solution)
**Profile**:
- >200 users
- >1M documents
- >5,000 searches/day
- <100ms required latency
**Recommendation**: Use TEI cluster or commercial service
## Monitoring Considerations
### Key Metrics to Track
```python
# Add Ollama-specific metrics
from prometheus_client import Histogram, Counter, Gauge
ollama_embedding_latency = Histogram(
'ollama_embedding_duration_seconds',
'Ollama embedding generation time',
['model', 'batch_size']
)
ollama_batch_size = Gauge(
'ollama_batch_size',
'Current batch size being processed'
)
ollama_errors = Counter(
'ollama_errors_total',
'Ollama embedding errors',
['error_type']
)
```
### Health Checks
```python
async def ollama_health_check():
"""Check Ollama availability"""
try:
async with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:
# Check server
response = await client.get("http://ollama:11434/api/tags")
response.raise_for_status()
# Verify model loaded
models = response.json().get("models", [])
if "nomic-embed-text" not in [m["name"] for m in models]:
return False, "Model not pulled"
return True, "OK"
except Exception as e:
return False, str(e)
```
## Migration Path
### Starting with Ollama
**Phase 1: Development** (Ollama)
- Use Ollama for initial development
- Validate embedding pipeline
- Test search quality
**Phase 2: Growth** (Ollama → Infinity)
- Monitor performance metrics
- When >50 users or >10k docs, migrate to Infinity
- Simple config change, no code changes
**Phase 3: Scale** (Infinity → TEI/Commercial)
- When >200 users or performance issues
- Consider TEI cluster or managed services
### Code Compatibility
All embedding providers use the same interface:
```python
# Works with Ollama, Infinity, OpenAI, Local
embedding = await embedding_service.embed(text)
embeddings = await embedding_service.embed_batch(texts)
```
**Migration is a configuration change only** - no code rewrite needed.
## Conclusion
**Ollama is a solid choice for:**
- Early-stage projects
- Development/testing
- Privacy-critical applications
- Small deployments (<10 users, <10k docs)
- Unified LLM + embedding stack
**But recognize its limitations:**
- 5-9x slower than specialized engines
- Not designed for high-throughput production
- Batch processing can be problematic
- Limited scalability
**Recommendation**:
**Include Ollama as Tier 2b** (after Infinity, before local models) in the embedding strategy. It provides a good balance of ease-of-use and privacy for small-to-medium deployments while allowing seamless migration to more performant engines as needs grow.
The key is designing the abstraction layer (as done in ADR-003) so migration between engines requires only configuration changes, not code rewrites.
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@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ Tests for Dynamic Client Registration (DCR) token_type parameter.
These tests verify that the Nextcloud OIDC server properly honors the token_type
parameter during client registration, issuing the correct type of access tokens:
- token_type="JWT" → JWT-formatted tokens (RFC 9068)
- token_type="Bearer" → Opaque tokens (standard OAuth2)
- token_type="jwt" → JWT-formatted tokens (RFC 9068)
- token_type="opaque" → Opaque tokens (standard OAuth2)
This is critical for ensuring:
1. Client choice is respected by the OIDC server
@@ -208,12 +208,14 @@ async def test_dcr_respects_jwt_token_type(
oauth_callback_server,
):
"""
Test that DCR honors token_type=JWT and issues JWT-formatted tokens.
Test that DCR honors token_type=jwt and issues JWT-formatted tokens.
This verifies:
1. Client registration with token_type="JWT" succeeds
1. Client registration with token_type="jwt" succeeds
2. Tokens obtained via this client are JWT format (base64.base64.signature)
3. JWT payload contains expected claims (sub, iss, scope, etc.)
Note: The OIDC app uses lowercase 'jwt' (not 'JWT').
"""
nextcloud_host = os.getenv("NEXTCLOUD_HOST")
if not nextcloud_host:
@@ -232,15 +234,15 @@ async def test_dcr_respects_jwt_token_type(
token_endpoint = oidc_config.get("token_endpoint")
authorization_endpoint = oidc_config.get("authorization_endpoint")
# Register client with token_type="JWT"
logger.info("Registering OAuth client with token_type=JWT...")
# Register client with token_type="jwt"
logger.info("Registering OAuth client with token_type=jwt...")
client_info = await register_client(
nextcloud_url=nextcloud_host,
registration_endpoint=registration_endpoint,
client_name="DCR Test - JWT Token Type",
redirect_uris=[callback_url],
scopes="openid profile email notes:read notes:write",
token_type="JWT",
token_type="jwt",
)
logger.info(f"Registered JWT client: {client_info.client_id[:16]}...")
@@ -278,7 +280,7 @@ async def test_dcr_respects_jwt_token_type(
assert "notes:write" in scopes, "JWT scope claim missing notes:write"
logger.info(
f"✅ DCR with token_type=JWT works correctly! "
f"✅ DCR with token_type=jwt works correctly! "
f"Token is JWT format with scope claim: {payload['scope']}"
)
@@ -290,12 +292,14 @@ async def test_dcr_respects_bearer_token_type(
oauth_callback_server,
):
"""
Test that DCR honors token_type=Bearer and issues opaque tokens.
Test that DCR honors token_type=opaque and issues opaque tokens.
This verifies:
1. Client registration with token_type="Bearer" succeeds
1. Client registration with token_type="opaque" succeeds
2. Tokens obtained via this client are opaque (NOT JWT format)
3. Opaque tokens are simple strings, not base64-encoded structures
Note: The OIDC app uses 'opaque' or 'jwt' as token_type values (not 'Bearer').
"""
nextcloud_host = os.getenv("NEXTCLOUD_HOST")
if not nextcloud_host:
@@ -314,18 +318,18 @@ async def test_dcr_respects_bearer_token_type(
token_endpoint = oidc_config.get("token_endpoint")
authorization_endpoint = oidc_config.get("authorization_endpoint")
# Register client with token_type="Bearer" (opaque tokens)
logger.info("Registering OAuth client with token_type=Bearer...")
# Register client with token_type="opaque" (opaque tokens)
logger.info("Registering OAuth client with token_type=opaque...")
client_info = await register_client(
nextcloud_url=nextcloud_host,
registration_endpoint=registration_endpoint,
client_name="DCR Test - Bearer Token Type",
client_name="DCR Test - Opaque Token Type",
redirect_uris=[callback_url],
scopes="openid profile email notes:read notes:write",
token_type="Bearer",
token_type="opaque",
)
logger.info(f"Registered Bearer client: {client_info.client_id[:16]}...")
logger.info(f"Registered Opaque token client: {client_info.client_id[:16]}...")
# Obtain token via OAuth flow
access_token = await get_oauth_token_with_client(
@@ -353,7 +357,7 @@ async def test_dcr_respects_bearer_token_type(
pass
logger.info(
f"✅ DCR with token_type=Bearer works correctly! "
f"✅ DCR with token_type=opaque works correctly! "
f"Token is opaque (not JWT format): {access_token[:30]}..."
)