Milvus
Milvus is an open-source vector database designed for AI applications, optimized for storing, indexing, and managing billions of embedding vectors generated by deep neural networks. It enables lightning-fast similarity searches across these high-dimensional vectors, acting as a specialized…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2019
- Category
- database
- Problem solved
- Traditional relational and NoSQL databases are inefficient and often incapable of performing high-dimensional vector similarity search at the scale and speed required by modern AI applications. Milvus was created to solve the challenge of managing and querying large collections of embedding vectors for applications like semantic search, recommendation systems, and image recognition, where exact matching is replaced by similarity matching.
- Platforms
- Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, macOS (via Docker), Windows (via Docker/WSL)
Related technologies
Notable users
- Bilibili
- Tencent Cloud
- Alibaba Cloud
- LINE
- Qualcomm