Milvus
Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search. Surpassed 40,000 GitHub stars in December 2025, fastest growth in project history. Used by 10,000+ enterprise teams including NVIDIA, Salesforce, eBay, Airbnb, and DoorDash. Milvus 2.5 introduced native hybrid search unifying lexical and semantic retrieval. Managed service Zilliz Cloud includes Cardinal engine delivering 4× higher performance than open-source with 96%+ recall and no manual tuning. Apache 2.0 license under LF AI & Data Foundation.
