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Milvus

Built for billions of vectors.

currentZilliz ↗Verified 2026-08-13

Billions

scale target

Specifications

Index	HNSW, IVF, DiskANN, GPU
Hybrid search	Yes
Hosting	Self-host and managed
Licence	Apache 2.0
p50 latency	~10ms

Official links

Zilliz official site

What matters

Distributed architecture with GPU index support
Heavier to operate than the alternatives

Best for very large corpora.

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