Milvus is an open-source vector database built to power AI applications and embedding similarity search. Milvus makes unstructured data search more accessible, and provides a consistent user experience regardless of the deployment environment.
Both Milvus Standalone and Milvus Cluster are available.
Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. It is currently a graduate project under LF AI & Data Foundation.
Millisecond search on trillion vector datasets
Average latency measured in milliseconds on trillion vector datasets.Simplified unstructured data management
Reliable, always on vector database
Milvus’ built-in replication and failover/failback features ensure data and applications can maintain business continuity in the event of a disruption.Highly scalable and elastic
Component-level scalability makes it possible to scale up and down on demand. Milvus can autoscale at a component level according to the load type, making resource scheduling much more efficient.Hybrid search
In addition to vectors, Milvus supports data types such as Boolean, integers, floating-point numbers, and more. A collection in Milvus can hold multiple fields for accommodating different data features or properties. By complementing scalar filtering to vector similarity search, Milvus makes modern search much more flexible than ever.Unified Lambda structure
Milvus combines stream and batch processing for data storage to balance timeliness and efficiency. Its unified interface makes vector similarity search a breeze.Community supported, industry recognized
With over 1,000 enterprise users, 6,000+ stars on GitHub, and an active open-source community, you’re not alone when you use Milvus. As a graduate project under the LF AI & Data Foundation, Milvus has institutional support.IMPORTANT The master branch is for the development of Milvus v2.0. On March 9th, 2021, we released Milvus v1.0, the first stable version of Milvus with long-term support. To use Milvus v1.0, switch to branch 1.0.
Install with Docker-Compose
Coming soon.
Install with Helm
Coming soon.
Build from source code
# Clone github repository.
$ cd /home/$USER/
$ git clone https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus.git
# Install third-party dependencies.
$ cd /home/$USER/milvus/
$ ./scripts/install_deps.sh
# Compile Milvus standalone.
$ make standaloneInstall with Docker-Compose
Coming soon.
Install with Helm
Coming soon.
Build from source code
# Clone github repository.
$ cd /home/$USER
$ git clone https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus.git
# Install third-party dependencies.
$ cd milvus
$ ./scripts/install_deps.sh
# Compile Milvus Cluster.
$ make milvus| Milvus 1.x | Milvus 2.0 | |
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| Architecture | Shared storage | Cloud native |
| Scalability | 1 to 32 read nodes with only one write node | 500+ nodes |
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| Availability | 99% | 99.9% |
| Data consistency | Eventual consistency | Three levels of consistency: |
| Data types supported | Vectors | |
| Basic operations supported | ||
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| Release status | Long-term support (LTS) | Release candidate. A stable version will be released in August. |
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| Image search | Chatbots | Chemical structure search |
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Images made searchable. Instantaneously return the most similar images from a massive database.
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Interactive digital customer service that saves users time and businesses money.
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Blazing fast similarity search, substructure search, or superstructure search for a specified molecule.
Milvus bootcamp are designed to expose users to both the simplicity and depth of the vector database. Discover how to run benchmark tests as well as build similarity search applications spanning chatbots, recommendation systems, reverse image search, molecular search, and much more.
Contributions to Milvus are welcome from everyone. See Guidelines for Contributing for details on submitting patches and the contribution workflow. See our community repository to learn about our governance and access more community resources.
The implemented SDK and its API documentation are listed below:
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Zilliz, the company behind Milvus, is actively hiring full-stack developers and solution engineers to build the next-generation open-source data fabric.
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