Milvus
Vector database for billion-scale workloads.
Cloud-native, distributed vector database (managed as Zilliz Cloud) designed for massive scale.
- Vendor
- Zilliz
- Category
- Vector databases
- Pricing
- Open source
- Open source
- Yes
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Platforms
- Self-hosted, Cloud
- Launched
- 2019
- Website
- milvus.io
Features
- Billion-scale
- GPU indexing
- Distributed
Best for
- Enterprise
- Long context
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