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Milvus
Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search
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About Milvus
Milvus is an open-source vector database written in Go that performs approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search at scale. It handles high-dimensional vector indexing and retrieval for applications like semantic search, recommendation systems, and similarity matching. Designed for cloud-native deployment, it supports distributed architectures and multiple index types.
Best for
Teams building search or recommendation features who need to manage vector data at scale and prefer open-source control over managed services.
Use cases
- Semantic search over embeddings from LLMs
- Recommendation engines based on vector similarity
- Image or document retrieval by learned representations
Notes
44,579 stars on GitHub. Last updated 2026-06-01. Licensed Apache-2.0.
Pros
- High throughput ANN search with tunable accuracy-speed tradeoffs
- Cloud-native design with horizontal scaling support
- Active open-source community with 44k+ GitHub stars
Cons
- Requires operational overhead to deploy and maintain in production
- Learning curve for index tuning and configuration optimization
- Separate system to integrate alongside existing data infrastructure
Key facts
What we have checked
- Latest version
- 3.0.4 (released 26 Oct 2026)
- GitHub stars
- 46,253
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Stars and usage
How Milvus is growing
44,579 to 46,253
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Changelog
What changed
Released 3.0.4
Released 2.6.26
Released 3.0.3
Released 2.6.25
Released 3.0.2
Released client/v3.0.0
Released 2.6.24
Released 3.0.1
Released 2.6.23
Released 2.6.22
Released 3.0.0
Released 2.6.21
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