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title: "milvus vs weaviate"
type: "comparison"
canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/compare/milvus-io-milvus-vs-weaviate-weaviate"
tools: ["milvus-io-milvus", "weaviate-weaviate"]
---

# milvus vs weaviate

Neutral, constraint-first comparison with live GitHub stats.

| | [milvus](/tools/milvus-io-milvus.md) | [weaviate](/tools/weaviate-weaviate.md) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tagline | High-performance vector database built for scalable vector ANN search | Open-source vector database for semantic search |
| Stars | 45,121 | 16,534 |
| Forks | 4,108 | 1,339 |
| Open issues | 963 | 578 |
| Language | Go | Go |
| License | Apache-2.0 | BSD-3-Clause |
| Categories | Vector Databases | Data & Retrieval, Vector Databases |

**Typed relationship:** milvus _(alternative)_ weaviate

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**Machine-readable endpoints**

- JSON: [`/api/graphcanon/graph?tool=milvus-io-milvus`](/api/graphcanon/graph?tool=milvus-io-milvus)
- LLM index: [/llms.txt](/llms.txt)
- Full corpus: [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt)

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