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What is Milvus?

Milvus is a highly flexible, reliable, and blazing-fast cloud-native, open-source vector database. It powers embedding similarity search and AI applications and strives to make vector databases accessible to every organization. Milvus can store, index, and manage a billion+ embedding vectors generated by deep neural networks and other machine learning (ML) models. This level of scale is vital to handling the volumes of unstructured data generated to help organizations to analyze and act on it to provide better service, reduce fraud, avoid downtime, and make decisions faster. Milvus is a graduated-stage project of the LF AI & Data Foundation.

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Milvus is the leading open source vector database built to power scalable vector similarity search in AI/ML applications.

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ZILLIZ
Year Founded
2017
HQ Location
Redwood City, US
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140 employees on LinkedIn®
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Zilliz is a leading vector database company for enterprise-grade AI. Founded by the engineers behind Milvus, the world's most widely-adopted open-source vector database, the company builds next-generation database technologies to help organizations create AI applications at ease. On a mission to democratize AI, Zilliz is committed to simplifying data management for AI applications and making vector databases accessible to every organization.

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Recent Milvus Reviews

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Chetan B.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"milvus - a must have DB"
Milvus stands proud as an outstanding open-source vector database for its effective guide for similarity seek and AI programs. What I like satisfac...
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4.5 out of 5
"Daily user of Milvus"
It is one of the fastest vector database out there.
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Bishal B.
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Bishal B.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Milvus user experience is amazing"
Milvus excels in performing similarity searches on high-dimensional vector data, which is crucial for applications like image retrieval, natural la...
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Chetan B.
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What do you like best about Milvus?

Milvus stands proud as an outstanding open-source vector database for its effective guide for similarity seek and AI programs. What I like satisfactory approximately Milvus is its distinctly efficient and scalable architecture, which seamlessly handles massive-scale datasets with millions or even billions of vectors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Milvus?

One major drawback is its quite steep learning curve, especially for users new to vector database and AI applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Milvus solving and how is that benefiting you?

For us, this capability translates into faster, extra relevant search outcomes, enhancing user experience in our applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Milvus?

Milvus excels in performing similarity searches on high-dimensional vector data, which is crucial for applications like image retrieval, natural language processing (NLP), and recommendation systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Milvus?

It is complex to setup and configure Milvus in a distributed environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Milvus solving and how is that benefiting you?

One of the core problems Milvus tackles is performing fast and accurate similarity searches on high-dimensional vector data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Milvus?

It is one of the fastest vector database out there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Milvus?

The code to make collection can be difficult to understand for a beginner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Milvus solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is really good at storing the database in vector form and fast to fetch the usefull and relative information from the database using similarity search algorithm using ML libraries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Milvus?

The ability to take the open source code base and build something really powerful for our own use case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Milvus?

The learning curve to get everything set up has been a challenge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Milvus solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our customers had given us feedback that our current stack restricted how they could deploy our platform. Milvus gives us more control and more options for our end users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Milvus?

Milvus is extremely scalable, easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Milvus?

Nothing to report whatsoever ........... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Milvus solving and how is that benefiting you?

Milvus is exceptional at handling large amounts of unstructured data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Milvus?

Milvus has a cloud native architecture, excellent performance, rich index types, and can support a variety of application scenarios, making it very suitable for large-scale landing in enterprises. With rich api support, it is very convenient to build a platform in enterprises. We use milvus in image similarity search, video similarity search, recommender system scenarios, by using milvus our system significantly improved performance and stability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Milvus?

Milvus should improve the web UI (Attu), currently the function is relatively simple, and also the upsert feature is Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Milvus solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Milvus in image similarity search, video similarity search, recommender system scenarios. By using Milvus our system significantly improved performance and stability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Milvus?

The Milvus community is very active; many users raise issues and get answers daily. The product update speed is breakneck, and it is constantly optimized. At present, its performance and stability meet our needs.

With its efficient and scalable architecture, Milvus can easily handle large-scale data sets, providing fast and accurate results even on complex queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Milvus?

Some docs are not accurate, with little mistakes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Milvus solving and how is that benefiting you?

Store vector in Milvus and help us to search similar mobile apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Milvus?

Distributed deployment on k8s。

Much faster than before。 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Milvus?

Restful mode query speed is too slow，is slower than python api and java api.

I hope optimize restful request method。 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Milvus solving and how is that benefiting you?

Image similarity

Text similarity

Recommended Recall Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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