What is Milvus?
Milvus is a high-performance, open-source vector database specifically engineered for Generative AI (GenAI) applications. It facilitates rapid search operations and can scale to accommodate tens of billions of vectors while maintaining optimal performance.
Milvus offers multiple deployment options to cater to various needs. These include Milvus Lite (a lightweight version for learning and prototyping), Milvus Standalone (a robust, single-machine deployment for production or testing), and Milvus Distributed (a scalable, enterprise-grade solution for handling billions of vectors). Additionally, Zilliz Cloud provides a fully managed Milvus service, offering enhanced performance and serverless or dedicated cluster options.
Features
- Scale as needed: Scale elastically to support tens of billions of vectors with a fully distributed architecture.
- Blazing fast: Retrieve data quickly and accurately with Global Index, regardless of scale.
- Reusable Code: Write once, and deploy with one line of code into the production environment.
- Supportive Community: Fan-favorite vector database with extensive resources and supportive contributors.
- Feature-rich: Metadata filtering, hybrid search, multi-vector and more.
Use Cases
- RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
- Image Search
- Multimodal Search
- Hybrid Search
- Graph RAG
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Milvus Uptime Monitor
Average Uptime
99.07%
Average Response Time
486.7 ms
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