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Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database for scalable vector ANN search
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Decision brief
Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database for scalable vector ANN search, supporting various indexing techniques and built for cloud-native environments.
Good fit when
- When you need a high-performance vector database that supports scalable approximate nearest neighbor search.
- If your application requires cloud-native capabilities and efficient indexing techniques for vector data.
Avoid when
- If your project does not require vector similarity search or approximate nearest neighbor search capabilities.
- When the project is not cloud-native and does not benefit from cloud-native optimizations.
- Hosting:
- self hosted - Milvus is designed to be self-hosted and can be deployed in a cloud-native environment.
- Pricing:
- freemium - Milvus is free to use under the Apache-2.0 license, but additional services or support may come at a cost.
- Requirements:
- Min 4 GB RAM; Requires Docker; Third-party dependencies must be installed before using Milvus.; Milvus is built with Go and requires a Go environment to run.
Observed Sep 18, 2026 · Source: enrich:decision_facts
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Maintenance and security
Full trust report- Maintenance
- Very active (0d since push)
- As of Sep 18, 2026
- Provenance
- Not a fork · Organization account
- As of Sep 18, 2026
- Security (OSV)
- 11 low (11 low)
- As of Sep 18, 2026
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- Company
- The Milvus Project·GitHub org profile·Jul 11, 2026
- Commercial model
- Pure OSS·GitHub org profile (public repos)·Jul 11, 2026
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go get github.com/milvus-io/milvusHow it fits your stack(34)
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Overview
Milvus is a vector database designed for efficient and scalable approximate nearest neighbor search. It supports various indexing techniques and is built for cloud-native environments.
Capability facts
- Deploy
- Self-host
Source: dockerfile:docker-compose.yml · Sep 18, 2026
- Docker
- Dockerfile present
Source: dockerfile:docker-compose.yml · Sep 18, 2026
- Languages
- go
Source: github.language · Sep 18, 2026
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README
Install third party dependencies. $ cd milvus/ $ ./scripts/install deps.sh
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