Milvus

Distributed open-source vector database built for billion-scale collections.

Also available as an MCP server

This page covers Milvus the product. To let an agent talk to it over the Model Context Protocol, see the Milvus MCP server.

Separated storage and compute is what lets vector search scale past a single node.

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Fully managed vector database with no index infrastructure to operate.

Open-source vector database in Rust, with rich payload filtering.

Open-source vector database with built-in hybrid search and vectorizer modules.