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Milvus is an open-source vector database built to power embedding similarity search and AI applications. Milvus makes unstructured data search more accessible, and provides a consistent user experience regardless of the deployment environment.

Milvus 2.0 is a cloud-native vector database with storage and computation separated by design. All components in this refactored version of Milvus are stateless to enhance elasticity and flexibility. For more architecture details, seeMilvus Architecture Overview.

Milvus was released under theopen-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. It is currently a graduate project underLF AI & Data Foundation.

• Standalone Quick Start Guide

• Cluster Quick Start Guide

• Advanced Deployment

Check the requirements first.

Linux systems (Ubuntu 18.04 or later recommended):

go:>= 1.18cmake:>= 3.18gcc: 7.5

MacOS systems with x86_64 (Big Sur 11.5 or later recommended):

go:>= 1.18cmake:>= 3.18llvm:>= 12

MacOS systems with Apple Silicon (Monterey 12.0.1 or later recommended):

go:>= 1.18 (Arch=ARM64)cmake:>= 3.18llvm:>= 13

Clone Milvus repo and build.

# Clone github repository.$ git clone https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus.git# Install third-party dependencies.$cd milvus/$ ./scripts/install_deps.sh# Compile Milvus.$ make

For the full story, seedeveloper's documentation.

IMPORTANT The master branch is for the development of Milvus v2.0. On March 9th, 2021, we released Milvus v1.0, the first stable version of Milvus with long-term support. To use Milvus v1.0, switch tobranch 1.0.

SeeMilvus 2.0 vs. 1.x for more information.

Image search	Chatbots	Chemical structure search

Images made searchable. Instantaneously return the most similar images from a massive database.

Interactive digital customer service that saves users time and businesses money.

Blazing fast similarity search, substructure search, or superstructure search for a specified molecule.

Milvusbootcamp is designed to expose users to both the simplicity and depth of the vector database. Discover how to run benchmark tests as well as build similarity search applications spanning chatbots, recommendation systems, reverse image search, molecular search, and much more.

Contributions to Milvus are welcome from everyone. SeeGuidelines for Contributing for details on submitting patches and the contribution workflow. See ourcommunity repository to learn about our governance and access more community resources.

For guidance on installation, development, deployment, and administration, check outMilvus Docs. For technical milestones and enhancement proposals, check outmilvus confluence

The implemented SDK and its API documentation are listed below:

• PyMilvus SDK
• Java SDK
• Go SDK
• Cpp SDK(under development)
• Node SDK

Attu provides an intuitive and efficient GUI for Milvus.

• Quick start

Join the Milvus community onSlack to share your suggestions, advice, and questions with our engineering team.

You can also check out ourFAQ page to discover solutions or answers to your issues or questions.

Subscribe to Milvus mailing lists:

• Technical Steering Committee
• Technical Discussions
• Announcement

Follow Milvus on social media:

• Medium
• Twitter
• Youtube

Reference to cite when you use Milvus in a research paper:

@inproceedings{2021milvus,  title={Milvus: A Purpose-Built Vector Data Management System},  author={Wang, Jianguo and Yi, Xiaomeng and Guo, Rentong and Jin, Hai and Xu, Peng and Li, Shengjun and Wang, Xiangyu and Guo, Xiangzhou and Li, Chengming and Xu, Xiaohai and others},  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Management of Data},  pages={2614--2627},  year={2021}}@article{2022manu,  title={Manu: a cloud native vector database management system},  author={Guo, Rentong and Luan, Xiaofan and Xiang, Long and Yan, Xiao and Yi, Xiaomeng and Luo, Jigao and Cheng, Qianya and Xu, Weizhi and Luo, Jiarui and Liu, Frank and others},  journal={Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment},  volume={15},  number={12},  pages={3548--3561},  year={2022},  publisher={VLDB Endowment}}

Milvus adopts dependencies from the following:

• Thanks toFAISS for the excellent search library.
• Thanks toetcd for providing great open-source key-value store tools.
• Thanks toPulsar for its wonderful distributed pub-sub messaging system.
• Thanks toRocksDB for the powerful storage engines.

Milvus is adopted by following opensource project:

• Towhee a flexible, application-oriented framework for computing embedding vectors over unstructured data.
• Haystack an open source NLP framework that leverages Transformer models