Milvus
An open source vector database built for billions of vectors, from an embedded Milvus Lite to a cloud native cluster. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- database engine
- Developer
- Zilliz
- Created by
- —
- First release
- 2019
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://milvus.io
- Written in
- Go, C++
- Data model
- Vector, Search
- Storage layout
- Vector index
- Workload
- Search
- Analytics architecture
- Not an analytics platform
- Query language
- Milvus API
- ACID transactions
- No
- Schema
- Strict
- Deployment
- Embedded, Server, Distributed cluster, Managed cloud
- Scaling
- Natively distributed
- Create, read, update, delete
- Create: fast (Streaming inserts into growing segments); Read: fast (Vector indexes with scalar filtering); Update: moderate (An upsert is a delete plus an insert); Delete: moderate (Marked deleted, compaction removes them)