Zilliz / Milvus
Zilliz / Milvus
The open source vector database for AI.
Zilliz is the primary contributor to Milvus, the world’s most advanced open-source vector database. Milvus is designed specifically to power AI applications, similarity search, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
Unlike traditional relational databases, it stores and indexes massive amounts of embedding vectors generated by deep neural networks, enabling millisecond search across billions of high-dimensional vectors.
Key Features
- Highly scalable vector database for AI embeddings
- Millisecond search across billion-scale datasets
- Distributed and cloud-native architecture
- Supports numerous vector indexing algorithms (HNSW, IVF)
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, Zilliz / Milvus is open source. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license.
You can use Zilliz / Milvus as a free, open-source alternative to Pinecone.
Yes, Zilliz / Milvus can be self-hosted on your own server or cloud infrastructure.
It is built using Python, Shell, Go, Groovy, C++.
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