Technology

Milvus

Milvus is the high-performance, open-source vector database built for scalable vector Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search in GenAI applications.

Milvus is a cloud-native, distributed vector database designed to manage, index, and query billions of high-dimensional embedding vectors with speed and efficiency. Developed by Zilliz and an LF AI & Data Foundation project (Apache 2.0 License), its architecture separates storage and compute, enabling horizontal scaling for massive datasets and real-time streaming updates. It supports diverse index types (HNSW, IVF, etc.) and is a core component for modern AI workloads like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), recommendation systems, and image retrieval.