Overview

Plain English

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

Technical

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

Technical scorecard

License Apache 2.0

Commercial use Yes

OpenAI-compatible API No

REST API No

Fine-tuning support No

Quantization support No

Docker available No

GUI / no-code available No

Telemetry None

Offline after setup Yes

Data & Privacy

After setup, this listing is marked as usable offline. Confirm network behavior against the upstream project before regulated deployment.

Not verified in this directory yet. Review the upstream docs for persistence, logs, and workspace storage.

Commercial use is marked as allowed or likely allowed by the listed license.

None

Last verified: May 17, 2026. Maintainer verification should be treated as directory guidance, not legal advice.

Setup & Installation

Medium

A developer can usually get this running with standard docs.

Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Bare Metal

# Start with the official project documentation
# https://milvus.io/

Hardware Requirements

RAM8 GB minimum / 16 GB recommended

Hardware tagsCPU Only, NVIDIA GPU (CUDA)

Model formatsNot specified

Primary languageGo

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