milvus-io

milvus

Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search

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EDITOR'S TAKE

Open-source vector DB with the most mature features for huge scale. ~30k stars. Steeper operational burden than Qdrant. Used in production by companies doing serious vector workloads.

Use this if

You are running vector search at extreme scale with a team that can operate distributed systems.

Skip if

You are a small team — Qdrant or pgvector will be enough and easier to run.