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Milvus

Cloud-native vector database built for billion-scale similarity search.

★ 45k on GitHub·Go·data updated 2026-07-06
GitHub stars★ 45k
LanguageGo
CategoryVector databases

What Milvus is for

Alternatives to Milvus

Qdrant

Vector databases · Rust
★ 33k

High-performance vector search engine with rich filtering, written in Rust for production-scale retrieval.

Weaviate

Vector databases · Go
★ 17k

Open-source vector database with hybrid search and built-in modules for vectorization and RAG.

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