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Milvus

Open-source vector database built for scalable similarity search

Search Engines ★ 45.6k stars Hard setup Apache-2.0

Milvus is an open-source vector database designed for scalable similarity search and AI applications. It can manage billions of vectors and supports semantic search and recommendation use cases.

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Key features

  • Billion-scale vector search
  • Multiple index types
  • Cloud-native distributed architecture
  • Hybrid search support

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Scales to massive datasets
  • Mature vector ecosystem

Trade-offs

  • Complex distributed deployment

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