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

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Milvus is a cloud-native vector database built for massive scale, with multiple index types and a distributed architecture for billions of vectors.

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$ pip install -U pymilvus

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

milvus has 45.9k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 4.2k times. milvus is written mainly in Go / C++. It has been in active development since 2019. milvus is available under the Apache-2.0 license. Its main topics are anns, cloud-native, diskann, distributed.

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What is milvus?

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

Is milvus open source?

milvus is an open-source project. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

Is milvus free?

Yes. milvus is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

What license does milvus use?

milvus is available under the Apache-2.0 license.

What language is milvus written in?

milvus is written mainly in Go / C++.

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