Milvus

What is Milvus?

Milvus is an open-source vector database built for scalable similarity search, capable of handling billions of vectors. Backed by the Zilliz company, Milvus supports multiple index types (IVF, HNSW, DiskANN), GPU-accelerated search, and multi-tenancy. Zilliz Cloud offers a fully managed version with automatic scaling. Milvus is widely used in enterprise deployments requiring high-throughput vector search at scale.

Key Features

• ✓Billion-scale vector search
• ✓GPU-accelerated indexing
• ✓Distributed architecture
• ✓Multiple index types
• ✓Cloud and self-hosted options

Common Use Cases

Organizations that need vector search at billion-scale with high throughput

• •Billion-vector similarity search
• •Large-scale recommendation systems
• •Image and video retrieval
• •Genomics and scientific computing
• •Enterprise-scale RAG systems