MILVUS-VECTOR

CNCF Graduate vector DB.

Definition

Milvus 2.x cloud-native: compute/storage separation, independent scaling. Indexes: IVF, HNSW, DiskANN, ScaNN. Distance metrics: L2, IP, Cosine, Jaccard. Managed versions: Zilliz Cloud. Adopted by Salesforce, NVIDIA, Walmart.

Origin

Open-sourced by Zilliz October 2019 ; CNCF Incubating 2021 ; Graduated May 2024.

Example in context

An EDI mapping assistant stores 100K historical mappings in Milvus to suggest mappings by semantic similarity.

Related terms

• Pinecone — SaaS competitor.