Comparison
milvus vs weaviate
A neutral, constraint-first comparison - live GitHub stats and typed relationships, not marketing.
| milvus | weaviate | |
|---|---|---|
| Tagline | High-performance vector database built for scalable vector ANN search | Open-source vector database for semantic search |
| Stars | 45k | 17k |
| Forks | 4.1k | 1.3k |
| Open issues | 963 | 578 |
| Language | Go | Go |
| License | Apache-2.0 | BSD-3-Clause |
| Last pushed | Jul 7, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 |
| Categories | Vector Databases | Data & Retrieval, Vector Databases |
| Typed relationship | milvus alternative weaviate | |