LLMs & AI Infra Vector DB stable
Milvus
Cloud-native vector DB for billion-scale AI search
32.0K stars
500 contributors
Since 2021
Distributed vector database designed for billion-scale similarity search with GPU indexing, hybrid search, and multi-tenancy support.
License
Apache-2.0
Min RAM
8 GB
Min CPUs
4 cores
Scaling
distributed
Complexity
intermediate
Performance
enterprise grade
Self-hostable
✓
K8s native
✓
Offline
✕
Pricing
fully free
Docs quality
good
Vendor lock-in
none
Use cases
- ✓ RAG retrieval backend for LLM applications
- ✓ Product recommendation via embedding similarity
- ✓ Semantic document search across knowledge base
- ✓ Image similarity search for e-commerce
Anti-patterns / when NOT to use
- ✕ Not for traditional OLTP/OLAP queries
- ✕ Heavy resource requirements
- ✕ Complex cluster management
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Technical specs
Language
GoC++
API type
RESTgRPC
Protocols
HTTP
Data model
vectordocument
Deployment
dockerbinary
SDKs
pythonjavascriptgorust
Community
GitHub stars 32.0K
Contributors 500
Commit frequency daily
Plugin ecosystem none
Backing Zilliz
Funding vc_backed
Release
Latest version
— Last release —
Since 2021
Best fit
Team size
solosmallmediumenterprise
Industries
saase-commercehealthcarelegaleducation