Milvus
Open-source distributed vector database
Overview
Milvus is an open-source vector database with billion-scale similarity search support — used by NVIDIA, Walmart, IKEA. Zilliz (commercial entity) offers managed Milvus cloud.
Pricing
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Use cases
ASEAN Perspective
Milvus in Southeast Asia
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Milvus is a leading open-source vector database (a graduated CNCF project) built for billion-scale similarity search and RAG workloads, with strong indexing options, GPU support, and a managed cloud (Zilliz Cloud) for those who'd rather not self-host. For teams building serious AI retrieval systems, it is a capable, production-proven foundation.
The trade-off is operational complexity: self-hosting a distributed deployment at scale requires real infrastructure expertise, and lighter projects may be better served by simpler options (pgvector, Qdrant, or embedded Milvus Lite). Being free and open-source is a major value point, the SDKs and docs are good, and ASEAN teams can deploy it anywhere. Excellent for engineering-strong teams; heavier than casual users need.
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