Milvus

Milvus is an open-source vector database optimized for high-dimensional vector search. It's designed to allow you to rapidly create collections, add data, search and delete data with minimal performance impact. It's designed to scale, too, with a distributed architecture that can handle billions of vectors.

Milvus comes in several forms to meet your needs:

• Milvus Lite: A lightweight version for learning, prototyping and running as a library in a notebook or laptop.
• Milvus Standalone: A standalone version for production and testing with collections of up to millions of vectors.
• Milvus Distributed: An enterprise version for high-scale, high-availability vector database needs, with billions of vectors.
• Zilliz Cloud: A managed version with low operational overhead available in serverless and dedicated cluster configurations.

Among its features are:

• Blazing Fast Searches: Get results fast with Global Index, no matter how large your collection is.
• Reusable Code: Write once and deploy with a single line of code to production.
• Supportive Community: Lots of documentation and active developers.
• Feature-Rich: Metadata filtering, hybrid search, multi-vector support and more.
• Elastic Scaling: Supports tens of billions of vectors with a distributed architecture.

Milvus is well-suited for GenAI use cases like image retrieval, recommender systems, anomaly detection and semantic search. It integrates with other tools and has a large community of developers contributing to the project.

For more details, check the Milvus website for tutorials, documentation and managed services.

Published on August 2, 2024