About Milvus
An open-source, cloud-native distributed vector database designed for high-performance ANN search and large-scale vector workloads, available as OSS and via Zilliz Cloud.
Key Features
- Distributed architecture with compute/storage separation for horizontal scaling and high availability.
- Support for multiple index types (HNSW, IVF, DiskANN, FLAT, quantized variants) and GPU acceleration.
- SDKs for popular languages, integrations with ML toolchains, and features for hybrid search and metadata filtering.
Use Cases & Best For
Organizations needing billion-scale vector search with hardware acceleration and production-grade scaling.
Teams that require multi-tenancy, hybrid search, and a mature open-source ecosystem with managed cloud options.
About Vector Databases
Storage and retrieval for embeddings