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# Milvus

Canonical: https://www.getapp.com.au/software/2213227/milvus-1

> Open-source vector database for storing, indexing, and searching high-dimensional embeddings, with on-premise and cloud deployment.
> 
> Verdict: Rated \*\*\*\* by 0 users. Top-rated for **Overall Quality**.

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## Overview

### Key benefits of Milvus

\* Supports three self-managed deployment modes (Lite, Standalone, Distributed) plus a managed cloud option, covering local prototyping through billion-scale production workloads without API changes across modes.
\* Provides ANN search, filtering search, range search, hybrid search, full-text search (BM25), reranking, and metadata filtering, giving engineering teams a broad set of retrieval primitives in a single system.
\* Offers 10+ index types including HNSW, IVF, DiskANN, SCANN, FLAT, and GPU-based NVIDIA CAGRA indexing, with hardware-aware optimization for AVX512, SIMD, GPUs, and NVMe SSDs for flexible performance tuning.
\* Hot/cold tiered storage separates frequently accessed data from cold data, reducing infrastructure costs at scale.
\* Fine-grained multi-tenancy supports isolation at the database, collection, partition, or partition key level, scaling from hundreds to millions of tenants on a single cluster.
\* RBAC, TLS encryption, and mandatory user authentication provide enterprise-grade access control and data security.
\* Milvus Backup enables data backup and restore; Milvus CDC provides change data capture for primary-standby disaster recovery configurations.
\* Prometheus and Grafana integration delivers production-grade monitoring and observability out of the box.
\* REST and gRPC APIs with SDKs for Python, Java, Go, C\#, and Node.js allow integration across diverse engineering stacks.
\* Embedding function support and PyMilvus integration enable server-side and client-side vectorization of unstructured data including text, images, audio, and video for use in RAG pipelines, semantic search, recommendation systems, anomaly detection, and fraud detection workflows.
\* Open-source codebase with an active contributor community allows inspection, customization, and community-driven development.

## About the vendor

- **Company**: LandmercPlus

## Commercial Context

- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 1,001–5,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 5,001–10,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+, 10,000+, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise)
- **Supported Languages**: English
- **Available Countries**: United States

## Integrations (1 total)

- Apache Phoenix

## Support Options

- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- Chat

## Category

- [Generative AI Tools](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/3874/generative-ai/software)

## Links

- [View on GetApp](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/2213227/milvus-1)

## This page is available in the following languages

| Locale | URL |
| en | <https://www.getapp.com/all-software/a/milvus-1/> |
| en-AE | <https://www.getapp.ae/software/2213227/milvus-1> |
| en-AU | <https://www.getapp.com.au/software/2213227/milvus-1> |
| en-CA | <https://www.getapp.ca/software/2213227/milvus-1> |
| en-GB | <https://www.getapp.co.uk/software/2213227/milvus-1> |
| en-IE | <https://www.getapp.ie/software/2213227/milvus-1> |
| en-NZ | <https://www.getapp.co.nz/software/2213227/milvus-1> |
| en-SG | <https://www.getapp.sg/software/2213227/milvus-1> |
| en-ZA | <https://www.getapp.za.com/software/2213227/milvus-1> |

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