Milvus is an ongoing open-source software (OSS) project focused on building the world’s fastest and most reliable vector database. New features inside Milvus v1.1.0 are the first of many updates to come, thanks to long-term support from the open-source community and sponsorship from Zilliz. This blog article covers the new features, improvements, and bug fixes included with Milvus v1.1.0.

New features

Like any OSS project, Milvus is a perpetual work in progress. We strive to listen to our users and the open-source community to prioritize the features that matter most. The latest update, Milvus v1.1.0, offers the following new features:

Specify partitions with `get_entity_by_id()` method calls

To further…

Milvus is an open-source vector database designed to manage massive million, billion, or even trillion vector datasets. Milvus has broad applications spanning new drug discovery, computer vision, autonomous driving, recommendation engines, chatbots, and much more.

In March, 2021 Zilliz, the company behind Milvus, released the platform’s first long-term support version-Milvus v1.0. After months of extensive testing, a stable, production ready version of the world’s most popular vector database is ready for prime time. This blog article covers some Milvus fundamentals as well as key features of v1.0.

Milvus distributions

Milvus is available in CPU-only and GPU-enabled distributions. The former relies exclusively on…

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Open-source communities are creative and collaborative spaces. In that vein, the Milvus open-source community recently created MilMil-a Milvus FAQ chatbot built by and for Milvus users. MilMil is available 24/7 at Milvus.io to answer common questions about Milvus, the world’s most advanced open-source vector database.

This question answering system not only helps solve common problems Milvus users encounter more quickly, but identifies new problems based on user submissions. MilMil’s database includes questions users have asked since the project was first released under an open-source license in 2019. Questions are stored in two collections, one for Milvus 1.x …

With the release of Milvus 2.0, the team has revamped the Milvus bootcamp. The new and improved bootcamp offers updated guides and easier to follow code examples for a variety of use cases and deployments. Additionally, this new version is updated for Milvus 2.0, a reimagined version of the world’s most advanced vector database.

Stress test your system against 1M and 100M dataset benchmarks

The benchmark directory contains 1 million and 100 million vector benchmark tests that indicate how your system will react to differently sized datasets.

Explore and build popular vector similarity search solutions

The solution directory includes the most popular vector similarity search use cases. Each use case contains a notebook solution and a docker deployable…

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Prohibitively long compilation — Code integration is done hundreds of times each day. With hundreds of thousands of lines of code in place, even a small change could result in a full compilation that typically takes one or more hours.

Complex compilation environment — The project code needs to be compiled under different…